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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-5626: -------------------------------------- *hive.metastore.try.direct.sql.ddl* is now documented in the wiki: * [Configuration Properties - hive.metastore.try.direct.sql.ddl | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Configuration+Properties#ConfigurationProperties-hive.metastore.try.direct.sql.ddl] > enable metastore direct SQL for drop/similar queries > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5626 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5626 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin > Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-5626.01.patch, HIVE-5626.02.patch, HIVE-5626.patch > > > Metastore direct SQL is currently disabled for any queries running inside > external transaction (i.e. all modification queries, like dropping stuff). > This was done to keep the strictly performance-optimization behavior when > using Postgres, which unlike other RDBMS-es fails the tx on any syntax error; > so, if direct SQL is broken there's no way to fall back. So, it is disabled > for these cases. > It is not as important because drop commands are rare, but we might want to > address that. Either by some config setting or by making it work on > non-postgres DBs. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)