[jira] [Updated] (HIVE-21484) Metastore API getVersion() should return real version

["Vihang Karajgaonkar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21484?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Vihang Karajgaonkar updated HIVE-21484:
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    Attachment: HIVE-21484.01.patch

> Metastore API getVersion() should return real version
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>                 Key: HIVE-21484
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21484
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Vihang Karajgaonkar
>            Assignee: Vihang Karajgaonkar
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HIVE-21484.01.patch
>
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> Currently I see the {{getVersion}} implementation in the metastore is returning a hard-coded "3.0". It would be good to return the real version of the metastore server using {{HiveversionInfo}} so that clients can take certain actions based on metastore server versions.
> Possible use-cases are:
> 1. Client A can make use of new features introduced in given Metastore version else stick to the base functionality.
> 2. This version number  can be used to do a version handshake between client and server in the future to improve our cross-version compatibity story.



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