Hi Stephen

We have cloudera setup deployed in our cluster, which we cannot update due
to orgs policy.
Till the time its not updated to version 0.14, How can I achieve the
locking feature please suggest.


On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> great policy. install open source software that's not even version 1.0
> into production and then not allow the ability to improve it (but of course
> reap all the rewards of its benefits.)  so instead of actually fixing the
> problem the right way introduce a super-hack work-around cuz, you know,
> that's much more "stable."
>
> Gotta luv it.   Good luck.
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Shushant Arora <shushantaror...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan
>>
>> I have 0.10 version of hive deployed in my org's cluster, I cannot update
>> that because of org's policy.
>> How can I achieve exclusive lock functionality while inserting in dynamic
>> partition on hive 0.10 ?
>> Does calling hive scripts via some sort of java api with patched jar
>> included will help ?
>> Moreover hive does not release locks in 0.10 when hive session is killed
>> . User has to explicitly unlock a table.
>> Can i specify any sort of max expiry time while taking a lock.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Shushant
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Alan Gates <ga...@hortonworks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Up until Hive 0.13 locks in Hive were really advisory only, since as you
>>> note any user can remove any other user's lock.  In Hive 0.13 a new type of
>>> locking was introduced, see
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+Transactions#HiveTransactions-LockManager
>>> This new locking is automatic and ignores both LOCK and UNLOCK commands.
>>> Note that it is off by default, you have to configure Hive to use the new
>>> DbTxnManager to get turn on this locking.  In 0.13 it still has the bug you
>>> describe as far as acquiring the wrong lock for dynamic partitioning, but I
>>> believe I've fixed that in 0.14.
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>>
>>>   Shushant Arora <shushantaror...@gmail.com>
>>>  September 20, 2014 at 5:39
>>>
>>> Hive version 0.9 and later has a bug
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> While inserting in a hive table Hive takes an exclusive lock. But if
>>> table is partitioned , and insert is in dynamic partition , it will take
>>> shared lock on table but if all partitions are static then hive takes
>>> exclusive lock on partitions in which data is being inserted
>>>
>>> and shared lock on table.
>>>
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3509
>>>
>>>
>>> 1.What if I want to take exclusive lock on table while inserting in
>>> dynamic partition ?
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to take explicit lock using :
>>>
>>> LOCK TABLE tablename EXCLUSIVE;
>>>
>>>
>>> But it made table to be disabled.
>>>
>>> I cannot even read from table anymore even is same session until I do
>>>
>>> unlock table tablename in another session;
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. moreover whats lock level in hive , I mean any user can remove any
>>> other users lock. that too seems buggy.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Shushant
>>>
>>>
>>>
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