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Jesus Camacho Rodriguez commented on HIVE-13014: ------------------------------------------------ [~ekoifman], I am removing 2.1.0 as target because the RC will be created tomorrow. Please feel free to commit to branch-2.1 anyway and fix for 2.1.0 if this happens before the release, or let me know if this is a Blocker. Thanks > RetryingMetaStoreClient is retrying too aggresievley > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-13014 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13014 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore, Transactions > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Eugene Koifman > Assignee: Eugene Koifman > Priority: Critical > > Not all metastore operations are idempotent. For example, commit_txn() > consists of > 1. request from client to server > 2. server action > 3. ack to client > If network connection is broken after (or during) 2 but before 3 happens, > RetryingMetastoreClient will retry the operation thus causing an attempt to > commit the same txn twice (sometimes in concurrently) > The 2nd attempt is guaranteed to fail and thus return an error to the caller > (which doesn't know the operation is being retried), while the first attempt > has actually succeeded. Thus the caller thinks commit failed and will likely > attempt to redo the transactions - not what we want in most cases. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)