Xuefu Zhang created HIVE-9258: --------------------------------- Summary: Explain query shouldn't launch a Spark application [Spark Branch] Key: HIVE-9258 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9258 Project: Hive Issue Type: Sub-task Components: Spark Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
Currently for Hive on Spark, query plan includes the number of reducers, which is determined partly by the Spark cluster. Thus, explain query will need to launch a Spark application (Spark remote context), which is costly. To make things worse, the application is discarded right way. Ideally, we shouldn't launch a Spark application even for an explain query. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)