retry metadata operation in case of an failure ----------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1666 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1666 Project: Hadoop Hive Issue Type: Improvement Components: Query Processor Reporter: Namit Jain Assignee: Paul Yang If a user is trying to insert into a partition, insert overwrite table T partition (p) select .. it is possible that the directory gets created, but the metadata creation of t...@p fails - currently, we will just throw an error. The final directory has been created. It will be useful to at-least retry the metadata operation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.