[jira] Commented: (HIVE-1788) Add more calls to the metastore thrift interface

["Paul Yang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Paul Yang commented on HIVE-1788:
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Instead of returning a list of Table objects, could we return a list of the matching table names? Then, the user would be responsible for getting the necessary table objects. Also, have you tried measuring the speed of the call where there are many (1000+) tables? It might be very slow, similar to how get_partitions() performs poorly compared to get_partition_names()

Also, with the current approach, won't the offsets not be consistent if new tables are created in between calls?

> Add more calls to the metastore thrift interface
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1788
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1788
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Ashish Thusoo
>            Assignee: Ashish Thusoo
>         Attachments: HIVE-1788.txt
>
>
> For administrative purposes the following calls to the metastore thrift interface would be very useful:
> 1. Get the table metadata for all the tables owned by a particular users
> 2. Ability to iterate over this set of tables
> 3. Ability to change a particular key value property of the table

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