Github user ppadma commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/653#discussion_r88770685 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/parquet/Metadata.java --- @@ -495,31 +499,75 @@ private ParquetFileMetadata_v3 getParquetFileMetadata_v3(ParquetTableMetadata_v3 * @param p * @throws IOException */ - private void writeFile(ParquetTableMetadata_v3 parquetTableMetadata, Path p) throws IOException { + private void writeFile(ParquetTableMetadata_v3 parquetTableMetadata, String path) throws IOException { JsonFactory jsonFactory = new JsonFactory(); jsonFactory.configure(Feature.AUTO_CLOSE_TARGET, false); jsonFactory.configure(JsonParser.Feature.AUTO_CLOSE_SOURCE, false); ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(jsonFactory); SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule(); module.addSerializer(ColumnMetadata_v3.class, new ColumnMetadata_v3.Serializer()); mapper.registerModule(module); - FSDataOutputStream os = fs.create(p); + + // If multiple clients are updating metadata cache file concurrently, the cache file + // can get corrupted. To prevent this, write to a unique temporary file and then do + // atomic rename. + UUID randomUUID = UUID.randomUUID(); --- End diff -- Yes, I wanted to use queryId as well. But, it is not easily accessible as you mentioned. I made the change to use same UUID for METADATA_FILENAME and METADATA_DIRECTORIES_FILENAME.
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