On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Philip Zeyliger <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm certainly aware of tools that read TEventSequence and expect it to have
> certain structures. If we change the profiles significantly, we should
> insert a version sigil in there so that a client could at least figure out
> that they're looking at something new.
>

OK, I'll see if I can keep the existing timeline in the same spot in the
resulting profile (potentially with additional fields in that same profile
node)


>
> A bigger modeling conversation is the use of string keys everywhere. For
> the timeline, for example, it's a list of (description, time) pairs, with
> the descriptions being strings. An alternative would have been to put the
> strings in Thrift itself. The latter, I think, makes tooling easier to
> write (since you're calling "get_query_started_time()" instead of "for
> description, time in timelines: if description == 'query started': return
> time". I recognize working with Thrift is kind of a pain, but I want to
> throw the thought out there if we're adding things to profiles.
>

Agreed -- or a set of well-known fields defined as a thrift enum instead of
relying on strings.. but I dont want to bite off too much in one go here :)


>
> -- Philip
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 4:02 PM Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I'm working on a patch to add some more diagnostics from the planning
> > process into query profiles.
> >
> > Currently, only the planning "Timeline" is reported back as part of the
> > response to createExecRequest. As part of the fetch-on-demand catalog
> work
> > I'd like to start exposing various counters such as cache hit/miss
> counts,
> > time spent on remote calls to the catalog, etc. Even in the existing code
> > paths, I can see some similar metrics being useful.
> >
> > My current thinking is to remove the 'timeline'  (TEventSequence) field
> > from TExecRequest and replace it with a full TRuntimeProfileNode. I'd
> then
> > add some capability in the Java side to fill in counters, etc, in this
> > structure.
> >
> > Any concerns with this approach before I go down this path? Are there any
> > compatibility guarantees I need to uphold with the profile output of
> > queries?
> >
> > -Todd
> > --
> > Todd Lipcon
> > Software Engineer, Cloudera
> >
>



-- 
Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera

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