This needs to be documented here: Limitations <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+Transactions#HiveTransactions-Limitations> in the Hive Transactions wikidoc.
-- Lefty On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:39 AM, sreebalineni . <sreebalin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Gopal, > Are there any plans for fixing this? Any idea? > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Gopal Vijayaraghavan <gop...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >Thanks Gopal. Indeed table t is defined as ORC and transactional. >> > >> >Any reason why this should not work for transactional tables? >> >> The committed transactions list is actually missing from the exported >> metadata. >> >> So the EXPORT as it exists today is a dirty read snapshot, which is not a >> good thing when the data is continously being streamed in. >> >> I don't think IMPORT likes that (and why should it?). >> >> Try with a fully compacted table. >> >> Cheers, >> Gopal >> >> >> >
