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Phabricator commented on HIVE-2758: ----------------------------------- cwsteinbach has accepted the revision "HIVE-2758 [jira] Metastore is caching too aggressively". +1. Kevin, can you handle testing and committing this change? REVISION DETAIL https://reviews.facebook.net/D1491 > Metastore is caching too aggressively > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2758 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2758 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Kevin Wilfong > Assignee: Kevin Wilfong > Attachments: HIVE-2758.D1491.1.patch, HIVE-2758.D1491.2.patch > > > The metastore is caching values, like table names and locations too > aggressively, leading to inconsistencies across Hive clients and metastore > Thrift servers. > For example, open two Hive clients, in each call > DESCRIBE FORMATTED table_foo; > Then in one of those clients, execute > ALTER TABLE table_foo RENAME TO table_bar; > Then in both clients call > DESCRIBE FORMATTED table_bar; > In the client that executed the alter command, the location is correct, > however, in the other Hive client, it will still show the original location > of table_foo. > A similar experiment can be done using metastore Thrift servers, substituting > get_table for DESCRIBE FORMATTED and alter_table for ALTER TABLE ... RENAME > TO. > On the Thrift server you can see that the one which did not execute the alter > command, not only returns the wrong location, despite calling > get_table('table_bar') it will return a table that still has the name > table_foo. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira