Hunter Logan created HIVE-24815: ----------------------------------- Summary: Remove "IDXS" Table from Metastore Schema Key: HIVE-24815 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-24815 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Components: Metastore, Standalone Metastore Affects Versions: 3.1.2, 3.1.1, 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 4.0.0 Reporter: Hunter Logan
In Hive 3 the rarely used "INDEXES" was removed from the DDL https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18448 There are a few issues here: # The Standalone-Metastore schema for Hive 3+ all include the "IDXS" table, which has no function. ** [https://github.com/apache/hive/tree/master/standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/sql/mysql] # The upgrade schemas from 2.x -> 3.x do not do any cleanup of the IDXS table ** If a user used the "INDEXES" feature in 2.x and then upgrades their metastore to 3.x+ they cannot drop any table that has an index on it due to "IDXS_FK1" constraint since the TBLS entry is referenced in the IDXS table ** Since INDEX is no longer in the DDL they cannot run any command from Hive to drop the index. ** Users can manually connect to the metastore and either drop the IDXS table or the foreign key constraint Since indexes provide no benefits in Hive 3+ it should be fine to drop them completely in the schema upgrade scripts. At the very least the 2.x -> 3.x+ scripts should drop the fk constraint. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)