[jira] [Comment Edited] (HIVE-18743) CREATE TABLE on S3 data can be extremely slow. DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS workaround is buggy.

["Zoltan Haindrich (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Zoltan Haindrich edited comment on HIVE-18743 at 2/19/18 9:00 AM:
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I feel that we may probably want to consider to abandon the stats collection in the metastore entirely; it should be done from only the hive task - which already sets DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS because it have already done it.

linked HIVE-17478


was (Author: kgyrtkirk):
I fell that we may probably consider to abandon the stats collection in the metastore entirely; it should be done from only the hive task - which already sets DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS - I think there is a ticket for this somewhere...

> CREATE TABLE on S3 data can be extremely slow. DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS workaround is buggy.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-18743
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18743
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Metastore
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.0, 1.1.0
>            Reporter: Alexander Behm
>            Assignee: Alexander Kolbasov
>            Priority: Major
>
> When hive.stats.autogather=true then the Metastore lists all files under the table directory to populate basic stats like file counts and sizes. This file listing operation can be very expensive particularly on filesystems like S3.
> One way to address this issue is to reconfigure hive.stats.autogather=false.
> *Here's the bug*
> It is my understanding that the DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS table property is intended to selectively prevent this stats collection. Unfortunately, this table property is checked *after* the expensive file listing operation, so the DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS does not seem to work as intended. See:
> https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/utils/MetaStoreUtils.java#L633
> Relevant code snippet:
> {code}
>   public static boolean updateTableStatsFast(Database db, Table tbl, Warehouse wh,
>                                              boolean madeDir, boolean forceRecompute, EnvironmentContext environmentContext) throws MetaException {
>     if (tbl.getPartitionKeysSize() == 0) {
>       // Update stats only when unpartitioned
>       FileStatus[] fileStatuses = wh.getFileStatusesForUnpartitionedTable(db, tbl);
>       return updateTableStatsFast(tbl, fileStatuses, madeDir, forceRecompute, environmentContext); <--- DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS is checked in here after wh.getFileStatusesForUnpartitionedTable() has already been called
>     } else {
>       return false;
>     }
>   }
> {code}



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