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Prasad Chakka commented on HIVE-718:
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continuing the ugly part, you can do some sort of leases instead of locks using 
files. create a file uniquely named with the current hour so lease will be held 
for an hour atmost. there might be lot of files hanging around but they can be 
created in /tmp which will get cleaned.

another option is, ashish is implementing session level temporary tables in 
metastore. you can use them as locks without worrying them existing after the 
session.

> Load data inpath into a new partition without overwrite does not move the file
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-718
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-718
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.4.0
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>         Attachments: HIVE-718.1.patch, HIVE-718.2.patch, hive-718.txt
>
>
> The bug can be reproduced as following. Note that it only happens for 
> partitioned tables. The select after the first load returns nothing, while 
> the second returns the data correctly.
> insert.txt in the current local directory contains 3 lines: "a", "b" and "c".
> {code}
> > create table tmp_insert_test (value string) stored as textfile;
> > load data local inpath 'insert.txt' into table tmp_insert_test;
> > select * from tmp_insert_test;
> a
> b
> c
> > create table tmp_insert_test_p ( value string) partitioned by (ds string) 
> > stored as textfile;
> > load data local inpath 'insert.txt' into table tmp_insert_test_p partition 
> > (ds = '2009-08-01');
> > select * from tmp_insert_test_p where ds= '2009-08-01';
> > load data local inpath 'insert.txt' into table tmp_insert_test_p partition 
> > (ds = '2009-08-01');
> > select * from tmp_insert_test_p where ds= '2009-08-01';
> a       2009-08-01
> b       2009-08-01
> d       2009-08-01
> {code}

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