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Eugene Koifman updated HIVE-20874: ---------------------------------- Description: currently all compaction requests (via Alter Table command or auto initiated ({{Initiator.java}}) land in a queue ({{COMPACTION_QUEUE}} metastore DB table) and are executed in order. If the queue is long and some table/partition needs to be compacted urgently, there is no way to send it to the beginning of the queue. Need a way to address this. was: currently all compaction requests (via Alter Table command or auto initiated (\{{Initiator.java}}) land in a queue (\{{COMPACTION_QUEUE}} metastore DB table) and are executed in order. If the queue is long and some table/partition needs to e compacted urgently, there is no way to send it to the beginning of the queue. Need a way to address this. > Add ability to to run high priority compaction > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-20874 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20874 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Transactions > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Eugene Koifman > Priority: Major > > currently all compaction requests (via Alter Table command or auto initiated > ({{Initiator.java}}) land in a queue ({{COMPACTION_QUEUE}} metastore DB > table) and are executed in order. > If the queue is long and some table/partition needs to be compacted urgently, > there is no way to send it to the beginning of the queue. > Need a way to address this. > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)