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Wei Zheng updated HIVE-14400: ----------------------------- Description: With multiple users concurrently issuing insert statements on the same partition has a side effect that some queries may not see a partition at the time when they're issued, but will realize the partition is actually there when it is trying to add such partition to the metastore and thus get AlreadyExistsException, because some earlier query just created it (race condition). For example, imagine such a table is created: {code} create table T (name char(50)) partitioned by (ds string); {code} and the following two queries are launched at the same time, from different sessions: {code} insert into table T partition (ds) values ('Bob', 'today'); -- creates the partition 'today' insert into table T partition (ds) values ('Joe', 'today'); -- will fail with AlreadyExistsException {code} was: With multiple users concurrently issuing insert statements on the same partition has a side effect that some queries may not see a partition at the time when they're issued, but will realize the partition is actually there when it is trying to add such partition to the metastore and thus get AlreadyExistsException, because some earlier query just created it (race condition). For example, imagine such a table is created: {code} create table T (name char(50)) partitioned by (ds string) clustered by (name) into 2 buckets stored as orc tblproperties('transactional'='true'); {code} and the following two queries are launched at the same time, from different sessions: {code} insert into table T partition (ds) values ('Bob', 'today'); -- creates the partition 'today' insert into table T partition (ds) values ('Joe', 'today'); -- will fail with AlreadyExistsException {code} > Handle concurrent insert with dynamic partition > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-14400 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14400 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Hive > Affects Versions: 2.2.0 > Reporter: Wei Zheng > Assignee: Wei Zheng > Attachments: HIVE-14400.1.patch > > > With multiple users concurrently issuing insert statements on the same > partition has a side effect that some queries may not see a partition at the > time when they're issued, but will realize the partition is actually there > when it is trying to add such partition to the metastore and thus get > AlreadyExistsException, because some earlier query just created it (race > condition). > For example, imagine such a table is created: > {code} > create table T (name char(50)) partitioned by (ds string); > {code} > and the following two queries are launched at the same time, from different > sessions: > {code} > insert into table T partition (ds) values ('Bob', 'today'); -- creates the > partition 'today' > insert into table T partition (ds) values ('Joe', 'today'); -- will fail with > AlreadyExistsException > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)