No, it does not. We rebuild metadata for all directories under mydata when you
query /mydata.
If new files get added anywhere in the whole hierarchy, metadata gets
regenerated
for all of them.
However, if you query only /mydata/3 and nothing is changed under 3,
no metadata is generated.
Thanks Padma,
Would we benefits at all from running metadata on directories that we know
we will never modify?
We would end up with:
/mydata/3/(Metadata generated...)
/mydata/4/(Metadata generated...)
/mydata/.../(Metadata generated...)
/mydata/109/(Metadata generated...)
/mydata/110/(Current
Unfortunately, we do not do incremental metadata updates.
If new files are getting added constantly, refresh table metadata will not help.
Thanks
Padma
> On Oct 5, 2017, at 5:36 PM, François Méthot wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been using drill for more than year now, we