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John Sichi commented on HIVE-1293:
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Some notes:
* A typical administrative sequence will involve taking a global lock on the
object(s) in question, then doing set hive.support.concurrency=false, then
doing the housekeeping work, then doing set hive.support.concurrency=true,
then unlocking the object(s).
* select * from t still takes a test lock at the beginning, but does not hold
it for the duration of the fetch. In order to get a completely dirty read
(skipping the lock), use set hive.support.concurrency=false for that session.
These don't require fixes or followups; they're just usage notes.
> Concurrency Model for Hive
> --------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-1293
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1293
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Query Processor
> Reporter: Namit Jain
> Assignee: Namit Jain
> Fix For: 0.7.0
>
> Attachments: hive.1293.1.patch, hive.1293.2.patch, hive.1293.3.patch,
> hive.1293.4.patch, hive.1293.5.patch, hive.1293.6.patch, hive_leases.txt
>
>
> Concurrency model for Hive:
> Currently, hive does not provide a good concurrency model. The only
> guanrantee provided in case of concurrent readers and writers is that
> reader will not see partial data from the old version (before the write) and
> partial data from the new version (after the write).
> This has come across as a big problem, specially for background processes
> performing maintenance operations.
> The following possible solutions come to mind.
> 1. Locks: Acquire read/write locks - they can be acquired at the beginning of
> the query or the write locks can be delayed till move
> task (when the directory is actually moved). Care needs to be taken for
> deadlocks.
> 2. Versioning: The writer can create a new version if the current version is
> being read. Note that, it is not equivalent to snapshots,
> the old version can only be accessed by the current readers, and will be
> deleted when all of them have finished.
> Comments.
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