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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-2246:
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Note that there is a bug in the upgrade script. After running this script, the
column information for all the partitions is lost. They all inherit the columns
from the table definition. It is not a serious problem, as the
partition column information is not really used by Hive. The only command whose
results will change is:
describe table <T> partition <P>;
> Dedupe tables' column schemas from partitions in the metastore db
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>
> Key: HIVE-2246
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2246
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore
> Reporter: Sohan Jain
> Assignee: Sohan Jain
> Fix For: 0.8.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-2246.2.patch, HIVE-2246.3.patch, HIVE-2246.4.patch,
> HIVE-2246.8.patch
>
>
> Note: this patch proposes a schema change, and is therefore incompatible with
> the current metastore.
> We can re-organize the JDO models to reduce space usage to keep the metastore
> scalable for the future. Currently, partitions are the fastest growing
> objects in the metastore, and the metastore keeps a separate copy of the
> columns list for each partition. We can normalize the metastore db by
> decoupling Columns from Storage Descriptors and not storing duplicate lists
> of the columns for each partition.
> An idea is to create an additional level of indirection with a "Column
> Descriptor" that has a list of columns. A table has a reference to its
> latest Column Descriptor (note: a table may have more than one Column
> Descriptor in the case of schema evolution). Partitions and Indexes can
> reference the same Column Descriptors as their parent table.
> Currently, the COLUMNS table in the metastore has roughly (number of
> partitions + number of tables) * (average number of columns pertable) rows.
> We can reduce this to (number of tables) * (average number of columns per
> table) rows, while incurring a small cost proportional to the number of
> tables to store the Column Descriptors.
> Please see the latest review board for additional implementation details.
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