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ASF GitHub Bot logged work on HIVE-26145: ----------------------------------------- Author: ASF GitHub Bot Created on: 25/Apr/22 12:14 Start Date: 25/Apr/22 12:14 Worklog Time Spent: 10m Work Description: zabetak commented on code in PR #3215: URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/3215#discussion_r857554725 ########## hcatalog/server-extensions/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/listener/DbNotificationListener.java: ########## @@ -174,12 +174,17 @@ public class DbNotificationListener extends TransactionalMetaStoreEventListener //cleaner is a static object, use static synchronized to make sure its thread-safe private static synchronized void init(Configuration conf) throws MetaException { - if (cleaner == null) { + long freq = MetastoreConf.getTimeVar(conf, MetastoreConf.ConfVars.EVENT_DB_LISTENER_CLEAN_INTERVAL, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS); + if (cleaner == null && freq > 0) { cleaner = Review Comment: The `cleaner` object is accessed in many places in this class and in order to ensure that we are not going to have a NPE we need to review all calls carefully. For instance, it seems that configuration changes (`onConfigChange`) may touch try to update some aspects of the `cleaner` assuming that the latter one is initialized. Issue Time Tracking ------------------- Worklog Id: (was: 761741) Time Spent: 0.5h (was: 20m) > Disable notification cleaner if interval is zero > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-26145 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-26145 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Janos Kovacs > Assignee: Janos Kovacs > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Time Spent: 0.5h > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > Many of the housekeeping/background tasks can be turned off in case of having > multiple instances running parallel. > Some are controlled via the housekeeping node configuration, others are not > started if their frequency is set to zero. > The DB-Notification cleaner unfortunately doesn't have this functionality > which makes all instances to race for the lock on the backend HMS database. > Goal is to add change to be able to turn cleaner off in case if there are > multiple instances running (be able to bound it to the housekeeping > instance). -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.7#820007)