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Abhishek Somani commented on HIVE-21841: ---------------------------------------- [~ashutosh.bapat] as I understand it currently, multiple HMS's co-ordinate amongst each other and ensure that only one of them is doing the job at a time by locking an entry in the db, in the AUX_TABLE. We think that its not good enough? > Leader election in HMS to run housekeeping tasks. > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-21841 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21841 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 4.0.0 > Reporter: Ashutosh Bapat > Assignee: Ashutosh Bapat > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 4.0.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-21841.01.patch, HIVE-21841.02.patch > > Time Spent: 10m > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > HMS performs housekeeping tasks. When there are multiple HMSes we need to > have a leader HMS elected which will carry out those housekeeping tasks. > These tasks include execution of compaction tasks, auto-discovering > partitions for external tables, generation of compaction tasks, repl thread > etc. > Note that, though the code for compaction tasks, auto-discovery of partitions > etc. is in Hive, the actual tasks are initiated by an HMS configured to do > so. So, leader election is required only for HMS and not for HS2. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)