oleksiy-sayankin commented on a change in pull request #2323:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/2323#discussion_r640590281



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File path: 
standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java
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@@ -5218,31 +5218,55 @@ private void 
removeUnusedColumnDescriptor(MColumnDescriptor oldCD) {
       return;
     }
 
-    boolean success = false;
     Query query = null;
+    LOG.debug("execute removeUnusedColumnDescriptor");
+    DatabaseProduct dbProduct = 
DatabaseProduct.determineDatabaseProduct(MetaStoreDirectSql.getProductName(pm), 
conf);
 
-    try {
-      openTransaction();
-      LOG.debug("execute removeUnusedColumnDescriptor");
+    /**
+     * In order to workaround oracle not supporting limit statement caused 
performance issue, HIVE-9447 makes
+     * all the backend DB run select count(1) from SDS where SDS.CD_ID=? to 
check if the specific CD_ID is
+     * referenced in SDS table before drop a partition. This select count(1) 
statement does not scale well in
+     * Postgres, and there is no index for CD_ID column in SDS table.
+     * For a SDS table with with 1.5 million rows, select count(1) has average 
700ms without index, while in
+     * 10-20ms with index. But the statement before
+     * HIVE-9447( SELECT * FROM "SDS" "A0" WHERE "A0"."CD_ID" = $1 limit 1) 
uses less than 10ms .
+     */
 
-      query = pm.newQuery("select count(1) from " +
-        "org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.model.MStorageDescriptor where 
(this.cd == inCD)");
+    if (dbProduct.isPOSTGRES()) {
+      query = pm.newQuery(MStorageDescriptor.class, "this.cd == inCD");
       query.declareParameters("MColumnDescriptor inCD");
-      long count = ((Long)query.execute(oldCD)).longValue();
-
+      List<MStorageDescriptor> referencedSDs = 
listStorageDescriptorsWithCD(oldCD, query);

Review comment:
       I have found 
[this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14667580/why-is-the-limit-clause-not-supported-in-sql-server).
 They say
   
   > MS SQL Server has TOP (n) clause. Example from SQL Server
   > SELECT TOP 5 * FROM Table
   
   
   




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