There’s no way to force immediate compaction. If there are compaction workers in the metastore that aren’t busy they should pick that up immediately. But there isn’t an ability to create a worker thread and start compacting.
Alan. > On Aug 1, 2016, at 14:50, Mich Talebzadeh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Rather than queuing it > > hive> alter table payees COMPACT 'major'; > Compaction enqueued. > OK > > Thanks > > Dr Mich Talebzadeh > > LinkedIn > https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw > > http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com > > Disclaimer: Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for any loss, > damage or destruction of data or any other property which may arise from > relying on this email's technical content is explicitly disclaimed. The > author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages arising from such > loss, damage or destruction. >
