For 1, cherry-picking it to Hive 3 does not work. I tried to backport HIVE-20911 to Hive 3, but it did not work because of so many dependencies :-(
--- Sungwoo On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:15 AM Bharathkrishna G M <bharo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to replicate the Hive metastore to create a separate instance (for > example, replicate the prod metadata to create a dev metastore). > > I'm using Hive version 3.1.2 and it only supports managed table > replication and lacks external table replication. > > I want to try and get external tables also replicate on Hive 3. A couple > of questions here: > > 1. I see the Pull request https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/506/files > for external table replication on Hive 4. Is it viable to cherry-pick it to > Hive 3, and is this something that has been tried out? > > 2. Also, I only want to replicate the metadata and not the data itself. > > 3. The replication commands seem to have changed with Hive 4, and I'm > unable to find the new commands (there's no documentation), the latest > documentation seen is > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveReplicationv2Development > which does not cover the external tables. > > Kindly guide me on the above. > > Thanks, > Bharath >
