Hello, Regarding dropping index support: I've thinked about it a few times earlier because it complicates things; on the other hand I think there are no real user base behind it because parquet/orc does a similar(better) optimization - without the extra need of sql ddls...the ticket have reinforced my point of view. Regarding lock/hpsql I'm not sure..but I think people are start watching tickets; and by doing so keep an eye on these things...
cheers, Zoltan On 13 Feb 2018 3:45 p.m., Peter Vary <pv...@cloudera.com> wrote: Hi Team, I am seeing several jiras proposing removing functions from Hive: HIVE-18691 Drop Support for Explicit Table Lock From Apache Hive HIVE-18692 Remove HPL/SQL From Apache Hive HIVE-18448 Drop Support For Indexes From Apache Hive I generally agree with removing unused functions. Especially ones which add extra effort to upkeep without real user base. My question is wether Hive has a deprecation policy for function deprecation like Hadoop: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/Compatibility.html#Deprecation <https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/Compatibility.html#Deprecation> Thanks, Peter
