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Carl Steinbach updated HIVE-1666: --------------------------------- Component/s: Metastore > retry metadata operation in case of an failure > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1666 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1666 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Metastore, 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. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira