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Vihang Karajgaonkar commented on HIVE-21115:
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Thanks [~ekoifman] for the suggestion. The only direct SQL path which I know
which modifies the HMS objects is dropTable which probably doesn't apply in
this case since the object is deleted. All the alter calls use JDO to the best
of my knowledge. On-update trigger is interesting idea. How do you envision the
transfer of the updated version value from the trigger to translate to the
thrift object. I think the trigger will execute as part of the transaction so
the updated value will only visible once the transaction commits.
> Add support for object versions in metastore
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>
> Key: HIVE-21115
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21115
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Vihang Karajgaonkar
> Priority: Major
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> Currently, metastore objects are identified uniquely by their names (eg.
> catName, dbName and tblName for a table is unique). Once a table or partition
> is created it could be altered in many ways. There is no good way currently
> to identify the version of the object once it is altered. For example,
> suppose there are two clients (Hive and Impala) using the same metastore.
> Once some alter operations are performed by a client, another client which
> wants to do a alter operation has no good way to know if the object which it
> has is the same as the one stored in metastore. Metastore updates the
> {{transient_lastDdlTime}} every time there is a DDL operation on the object.
> However, this value cannot be relied for all the clients since after
> HIVE-1768 metastore updates the value only when it is not set in the
> parameters. It is possible that a client which alters the object state, does
> not remove the {{transient_lastDdlTime}} and metastore will not update it.
> Secondly, if there is a clock skew between multiple HMS instances when HMS-HA
> is configured, time values cannot be relied on to find out the sequence of
> alter operations on a given object.
> This JIRA propose to use JDO versioning support by Datanucleus
> http://www.datanucleus.org/products/accessplatform_4_2/jdo/versioning.html to
> generate a incrementing sequence number every time a object is altered. The
> value of this object can be set as one of the values in the parameters. The
> advantage of using Datanucleus the versioning can be done across HMS
> instances as part of the database transaction and it should work for all the
> supported databases.
> In theory such a version can be used to detect if the client is presenting a
> object which is "stale" when issuing a alter request. Metastore can choose to
> reject such a alter request since the client may be caching a old version of
> the object and any alter operation on such stale object can potentially
> overwrite previous operations. However, this is can be done in a separate
> JIRA.
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