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Naveen Gangam commented on HIVE-21209: -------------------------------------- [~ashutoshc] [~pvary] [~thejas] A request for improvement from a real customer. Just wanted to file the request so we could evaluate this. THanks > [Improvement] Exchange partitition to be metadata only change? > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-21209 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21209 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Hive > Affects Versions: 2.1.1 > Reporter: Naveen Gangam > Priority: Minor > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14560 > Current implementation of the above jira is a metadata and a "copy" of the > partition data on the DFS. Could possibly take a long time to copy the data > for large partition data especially different storage clusters. When > exchanging a partition from a HDFS to S3a or vice versa the data is copied > and this is client copy operation and it can be very slow if the partition is > very large. > The customer would like the "exchange partition" operation to purely > metadata. I would like to start a discussion on whether this improvement is > to be made. Obviously, the current behavior will be supported but and option > for it to be a metadata operation only needs to be evaluated. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)