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Phabricator commented on HIVE-2907: ----------------------------------- kevinwilfong has accepted the revision "HIVE-2907 [jira] Hive error when dropping a table with large number of partitions". +1 Will commit if tests pass. REVISION DETAIL https://reviews.facebook.net/D2505 BRANCH svn > Hive error when dropping a table with large number of partitions > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2907 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2907 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Affects Versions: 0.9.0 > Environment: General. Hive Metastore bug. > Reporter: Mousom Dhar Gupta > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.9.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-2907.1.patch.txt, HIVE-2907.D2505.1.patch, > HIVE-2907.D2505.2.patch, HIVE-2907.D2505.3.patch, HIVE-2907.D2505.4.patch, > HIVE-2907.D2505.5.patch > > Original Estimate: 10h > Remaining Estimate: 10h > > Running into an "Out Of Memory" error when trying to drop a table with 128K > partitions. > The methods dropTable in > metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java > and dropTable in ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/exec/DDLTask.java > encounter out of memory errors > when dropping tables with lots of partitions because they try to load the > metadata for every partition into memory. -- 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