Hive 4 brings built-in support for Iceberg format, duplicated implementation in both sides look a redundant stuff.
As Hive 2 and 3 do not support Java 11+, and Iceberg 1.8 requires Java 11+, the combination is invalid. How about simply dropping support for Hive 2&3 and suggesting the Hive user upgrade Hive 4 to gain the built-in Iceberg support? Thanks, Cheng Pan > On Nov 20, 2024, at 12:47, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We previously reached consensus[1] to deprecate Hive 2 in 1.7 and drop in > 1.8. However, when working on the removal PR[2], multiple tests failed in > Hive 3 due to not supporting JDK11[3]. The fix has been back-ported to > branch-3.1[4] but not released yet. As announced on Hive website, Hive 3.x is > declared as End of Life so there will be no more Hive 3 release. > Peter(@pvary) suggested upgrading to Hive 4 instead. On the other hand, > iceberg-hive3 tests are already broken after we dropped JDK 8 support. It's > not caught previously due to tests not running[6]. > > Based on the current situation, here are the options I can think of to move > forward > > A. Continue to remove Hive 2 in the current PR and upgrade to Hive 4 in a > separate PR. > B. Hold on removing Hive 2 until we upgrade to Hive 4 > C. Add source dependency[7] on Hive branch-3.1 or make a Hive 3.1 release > from a forked repo. > > 1. https://lists.apache.org/thread/zg14b8cor4lnbyd3t4n1297y2bwb1fsg > 2. https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10996 > 3. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21584 > 4. https://github.com/apache/hive/commits/branch-3.1/ > 5. https://hive.apache.org/general/downloads/ > 6. https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/11584 > 7. https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-source-dependencies > > Which option do you prefer? Any better alternative? > > Thanks, > Manu
