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Chris Nauroth commented on HIVE-14271:
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If I understand correctly, then approach b) sounds like the "direct output
committer" strategy that has been discussed in a few other contexts. Please be
aware that this is unsafe in the presence of certain kinds of network
partitions. It might be a rare case, but the consequences are distastrous:
data loss or corruption. For example, Spark highly discourages a direct write
strategy. (See SPARK-10063.)
> FileSinkOperator should not rename files to final paths when S3 is the
> default destination
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> Key: HIVE-14271
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14271
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Sergio Peña
> Assignee: Abdullah Yousufi
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> FileSinkOperator does a rename of {{outPaths -> finalPaths}} when it finished
> writing all rows to a temporary path. The problem is that S3 does not support
> renaming.
> Two options can be considered:
> a. Use a copy operation instead. After FileSinkOperator writes all rows to
> outPaths, then the commit method will do a copy() call instead of move().
> b. Write row by row directly to the S3 path (see HIVE-1620). This may add
> better performance calls, but we should take care of the cleanup part in case
> of writing errors.
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