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Alexander Kolbasov commented on HIVE-18940:
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As [~vihangk1] noticed the problem is even worse since DbNotifictionListener
also does file system calls as part of creating notifications and these can
significantly increase the hold time for the lock.
Also note that any consumer (e.g. replication) who tries to get last
notification ID will be blocked as well.
> Hive notifications serialize all write DDL operations
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> Key: HIVE-18940
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18940
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Metastore
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Alexander Kolbasov
> Priority: Major
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> The implementation of DbNotificationListener uses a single row to store
> current notification ID and uses {{SELECT FOR UPDATE}} to lock the row. This
> serializes all write DDL operations which isn't good.
> We should consider using database auto-increment for notification ID instead.
> Especially on mMySQL/innoDb it is supported natively with relatively
> light-weight locking.
> This creates potential issue for consumers though because such IDs may have
> holes. There are two types of holes - transient hole for a transaction which
> have not committed yet and will be committed shortly and permanent holes for
> transactions that fail. Consumers need to deal with it. It may be useful to
> add DB-generated timestamp as well to assist in recovery from holes.
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