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pengcheng xiong commented on HIVE-7506:
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Thanks for your comments. We noticed that the command that you pointed out can
"create" the statistics. But we are trying to provide a mechanism to edit the
statistics on the fly. We can then achieve our motivations.
> MetadataUpdater: provide a mechanism to edit the statistics of a column in a
> table (or a partition of a table)
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> Key: HIVE-7506
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7506
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Database/Schema
> Reporter: pengcheng xiong
> Assignee: pengcheng xiong
> Priority: Critical
> Original Estimate: 252h
> Remaining Estimate: 252h
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> Two motivations:
> (1) CBO depends heavily on the statistics of a column in a table (or a
> partition of a table). If we would like to test whether CBO chooses the best
> plan under different statistics, it would be time consuming if we load the
> whole table and create the statistics from ground up.
> (2) As database runs, the statistics of a column in a table (or a partition
> of a table) may change. We need a way or a mechanism to synchronize.
> We propose the following command to achieve that:
> ALTER TABLE table_name PARTITION partition_spec [COLUMN col_name] UPDATE
> STATISTICS col_statistics [COMMENT col_comment]
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