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Sohan Jain commented on HIVE-2188: ---------------------------------- RB: https://reviews.apache.org/r/831/ Thanks for looking, Ashutosh. I'm not sure how to translate the speedup to hive queries, but a plausible use case is when you are working with a Hive client. Suppose you have N tables that you know share a set of keys, and you need to get the values of those keys for each table somewhat quickly to populate a UI. Previously, you would have to call get_table on each table, which requires N trips to the metastore, but now you can retrieve all tables with just one trip to the metastore, saving time on the overhead of going to the metastore. > Add multi_get_table function in Hive Metastore > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2188 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2188 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Sohan Jain > Assignee: Sohan Jain > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HIVE-2188.1.patch > > > This function would get multiple tables from the hive metastore as opposed to > just one at a time, saving round trip time to the metastore. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira