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Geoffrey Jacoby commented on PHOENIX-4703:
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[~giskender] - I +1'ed on the PR, but you could please submit a patch for the
test run? Also, please check to make sure your patch works with the 4.x
branches and if not please submit a backport. Thanks!
> Provide an option to fully rebuild indexes asynchronously through SQL
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> Key: PHOENIX-4703
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-4703
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Vincent Poon
> Assignee: Gokcen Iskender
> Priority: Major
> Time Spent: 4h 50m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Currently if we run "ALTER INDEX ... REBUILD" , all the rows in the index are
> deleted and the index is rebuilt synchronously.
> "ALTER INEX ... REBUILD ASYNC" seems to be used for the IndexTool's partial
> rebuild option, rebuilding from ASYNC_REBUILD_TIMESTAMP (PHOENIX-2890)
> So it seems currently the only way to fully rebuild is the drop the index,
> and recreate it. This is burdensome as it requires have the schema DDL.
> We should have an option to fully rebuild asynchronously, that has the same
> semantics as dropping and recreating the index. A further advantage of this
> is we can maintain the splits of the index table while dropping its data. We
> are currently seeing issues where rebuilding a large table via a MR job
> results in hotspotting due to all data regions writing to the same index
> region at the start.
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