Vihang Karajgaonkar created HIVE-19050: ------------------------------------------
Summary: DBNotificationListener does not catch exceptions in the cleaner thread Key: HIVE-19050 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19050 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore, Standalone Metastore Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.4.0 Reporter: Vihang Karajgaonkar Assignee: Vihang Karajgaonkar The DbNotificationListener class has a separate thread which cleans the old notifications from the database. Here is the snippet from the {{run}} method. {noformat} public void run() { while (true) { rs.cleanNotificationEvents(ttl); LOG.debug("Cleaner thread done"); try { Thread.sleep(sleepTime); } catch (InterruptedException e) { LOG.info("Cleaner thread sleep interrupted", e); } } } {noformat} If {{rs.cleanNotificationEvents}} throws a RuntimeException which datanucleus can throw the exception remains uncaught and the thread will die. This can lead to older notifications never getting cleaned until we restart HMS. Given that many operations generate loads of events, the notification log table can quickly have thousands of rows which are never get cleaned up. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)