https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4226 seemed addressing this.
2013/8/11 Brock Noland <br...@cloudera.com>: > I would love to get rid of the static thread local stuff. It was required > to make hive work in a server model but isn't the correct solution to this > problem. > > I do think it will be a large amount of work so it'd be great to see > whoever leads this effort to have a high level plan as opposed to an adhoc > effort. > > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Edward Capriolo > <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I just committed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3772. >> >> For hive-server2 Carl and others did a lot of work to clean up un thread >> safe things from hive. >> >> Hive was originally build as a fat client so it is not surprising that many >> such constructs exist. Now since we have retrofitted multi-threaded-ness >> onto the project we have a number of edge case bugs. >> >> My suggestions here would be for that the next release 0.13 we make a push >> to remove all possible non thread safe code and explicitly pass context >> objects or serialized structures everywhere thread safety is needed. >> >> I can see this would start with something like the Function Registry, this >> would be a per session object passed around rather then a global object >> with static hashmap instances in it. >> >> I know that this probably will not be as simple as removing all static >> members from our codebase, but does anyone know of specific challenges that >> will be intrinsically hard to solve? >> >> Please comment. >> > > > > -- > Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://mrunit.apache.org