Hive error when dropping a table with large number of partitions ----------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2907 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2907 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Affects Versions: 0.9.0 Environment: General. Hive Metastore bug. Reporter: Mousom Dhar Gupta Priority: Minor Fix For: 0.9.0 Running into an "Out Of Memory" error when trying to drop a table with 128K partitions. The methods dropTable in metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java and dropTable in ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/exec/DDLTask.java encounter out of memory errors when dropping tables with lots of partitions because they try to load the metadata for every partition into memory. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira