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Peter Vary commented on HIVE-22755: ----------------------------------- In my deleted comment I misunderstood the purpose of the jira :( The read lock is needed so there is no concurrent DDL command running parallel the compaction. Before having versioned table/partition metadata, removing this read lock could be problematic. > Cleaner/Compaction can skip the read locks and use the min open txn id > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-22755 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-22755 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Transactions > Reporter: Slim Bouguerra > Priority: Major > Fix For: 4.0.0 > > > The minOpenTxnId is used by the Cleaner here > https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/txn/compactor/Cleaner.java#L154 > This currently converts it to open write-ids to clean appropriately. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)