> On Nov. 2, 2017, 10:40 p.m., Peter Vary wrote: > > standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java > > Lines 265 (patched) > > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/63528/diff/1/?file=1879637#file1879637line265> > > > > Shouldn't we use > > parts = msdb.getPartitions(dbname, name, partitionBatchSize); > > instead > > parts = msdb.getPartitions(dbname, name, -1); > > > > This way we will load only the required amount of partitions, instead > > of all. > > Adam Szita wrote: > Although msdb.getPartitions(dbname, name, partitionBatchSize) only loads > partitionBatchSize amount of partitions, it will always return the same set > of partitions. This is used in dropPartitions and it's not a problem there as > we're also removing the requested set, so it is guaranteed to get new ones in > the next call. For our use case here it is sadly not feasable to use this > call. Taking a look at RawStore class I can see no iterative way to query the > partitions from the DB behind HMS.
Still think it would be useful, to have the possibility to load only partial partition list into memory to decrease memory load. Shall we open a follow-up jira for this? Thanks, Peter - Peter ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://reviews.apache.org/r/63528/#review189979 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Nov. 2, 2017, 10:02 p.m., Adam Szita wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://reviews.apache.org/r/63528/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Nov. 2, 2017, 10:02 p.m.) > > > Review request for hive, Peter Vary and Barna Zsombor Klara. > > > Bugs: HIVE-17969 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-17969 > > > Repository: hive-git > > > Description > ------- > > Refactoring alter table code to use batching of partitions when calling the > heavy removeUnusedColumnDescriptor method > > > Diffs > ----- > > > standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java > ccadac1ada6aaae884ab39f5d99e91b8c542404e > > standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java > 62801c53853dbafb7c425cff943ec819dcee4800 > > > Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/63528/diff/1/ > > > Testing > ------- > > > Thanks, > > Adam Szita > >