[GitHub] [hudi] prashantwason commented on a change in pull request #2595: [HUDI-1634] Re-bootstrap metadata table when un-synced instants have been archived.

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prashantwason commented on a change in pull request #2595:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/2595#discussion_r584093038



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File path: hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java
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@@ -235,6 +235,29 @@ protected void initTableMetadata() {
   protected void bootstrapIfNeeded(HoodieEngineContext engineContext, HoodieTableMetaClient datasetMetaClient) throws IOException {
     HoodieTimer timer = new HoodieTimer().startTimer();
     boolean exists = datasetMetaClient.getFs().exists(new Path(metadataWriteConfig.getBasePath(), HoodieTableMetaClient.METAFOLDER_NAME));
+    boolean rebootstrap = false;
+    if (exists) {
+      // If the un-synched instants have been archived then the metadata table will need to be bootstrapped again

Review comment:
       This can happen if the metadata table is disabled (say while debugging production issues) and later enabled.




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