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Hudson commented on HIVE-4235: ------------------------------ Integrated in Hive-trunk-h0.21 #2035 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-h0.21/2035/]) HIVE-4235. CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS uses inefficient way to check if table exists. (Gang Tim Liu via kevinwilfong) (Revision 1462373) Result = FAILURE kevinwilfong : http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1462373 Files : * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/SemanticAnalyzer.java > CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS uses inefficient way to check if table exists > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-4235 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4235 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: JDBC, Query Processor, SQL > Reporter: Gang Tim Liu > Assignee: Gang Tim Liu > Fix For: 0.11.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-4235.patch.1 > > > CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS uses inefficient way to check if table exists. > It uses Hive.java's getTablesByPattern(...) to check if table exists. It > involves regular expression and eventually database join. Very efficient. It > can cause database lock time increase and hurt db performance if a lot of > such commands hit database. > The suggested approach is to use getTable(...) since we know tablename already -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira