Whether you obtain a read lock depends on the guarantees you want to
make to your readers. Obtaining the lock will do a couple of things
your uses might want:
1) It will prevent DDL statements such as DROP TABLE from removing the
data while they are reading it.
2) It will prevent the compactor
Hi, I'm working on a Cascading Tap that reads the data that backs a
transactional Hive table. I've successfully utilised the in-built
OrcInputFormat functionality to read and merge the deltas with the base and
optionally pull in the RecordIdentifiers. However, I'm now considering what
other steps I
