[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-6980) Drop table by using direct sql

["Peter Vary (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Peter Vary commented on HIVE-6980:
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[~selinazh]: do you plan to work on this? We have customers having problems with long dropping times. If you do not have time, I would be happy to work on this. If you have some pointers how were you able to convince DataNucleus to leave the drops for the DB FK constraints it would be very helpful. I was trying to do this by setting {{datanucleus.deletionPolicy}} to {{DataNucleus}} but the log still shows that separate DN query is issued to drop the child data even though the FK is present in the database, and working.

If we are not able to move forward with the cascade solution, then I could provide a directsql solution instead, which is more straightforward

Thanks,

Peter

> Drop table by using direct sql
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-6980
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6980
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Metastore
>    Affects Versions: 0.12.0
>            Reporter: Selina Zhang
>            Assignee: Selina Zhang
>            Priority: Major
>
> Dropping table which has lots of partitions is slow. Even after applying the patch of HIVE-6265, the drop table still takes hours (100K+ partitions). 
> The fixes come with two parts:
> 1. use directSQL to query the partitions protect mode;
> the current implementation needs to transfer the Partition object to client and check the protect mode for each partition. I'd like to move this part of logic to metastore. The check will be done by direct sql (if direct sql is disabled, execute the same logic in the ObjectStore);
> 2. use directSQL to drop partitions for table;
> there maybe two solutions here:
> 1. add "DELETE CASCADE" in the schema. In this way we only need to delete entries from partitions table use direct sql. May need to change datanucleus.deletionPolicy = DataNucleus. 
> 2. clean up the dependent tables by issue DELETE statement. This also needs to turn on datanucleus.query.sql.allowAll
> Both of above solutions should be able to fix the problem. The DELETE CASCADE has to change schemas and prepare upgrade scripts. The second solutions added maintenance cost if new tables added in the future releases.
> Please advice. 



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