Github user sohami commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1111#discussion_r166209232 --- Diff: contrib/storage-hive/core/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/hive/HiveMetadataProvider.java --- @@ -264,6 +265,10 @@ private HiveStats getStatsEstimateFromInputSplits(final List<LogicalInputSplit> final List<LogicalInputSplit> splits = Lists.newArrayList(); final JobConf job = new JobConf(hiveConf); HiveUtilities.addConfToJob(job, properties); + if (AcidUtils.isTablePropertyTransactional(properties)) { + AcidUtils.setTransactionalTableScan(job, true); + HiveUtilities.setColumnTypes(job, properties, true, sd); + } --- End diff -- How about refactoring this block of code to a new method in HiveUtilities ? Like `verifyAndAddTransactionalProperty()`. Then just call that method from both here and HiveAbstractReader
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