[HIVE-1666] retry metadata operation in case of an failure

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: Metastore, Query Processor
• Assignee: Paul Yang
• Reporter: Namit Jain
• Created: 23/Sep/10 20:57
• Updated: 31/Mar/16 16:49
• Resolved: 31/Mar/16 16:49

Description

If a user is trying to insert into a partition,

insert overwrite table T partition (p) select ..

it is possible that the directory gets created, but the metadata creation of T@p fails -
currently, we will just throw an error. The final directory has been created.

It will be useful to at-least retry the metadata operation.