[FLINK-19361] Make HiveCatalog thread safe

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.3, 1.12.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Hive
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Rui Li
• Reporter: Rui Li
• Created: 22/Sep/20 13:14
• Updated: 19/Feb/21 07:26
• Resolved: 24/Sep/20 10:14

Description

Currently the metastore client we create is not thread safe, which causes issues if the HiveCatalog instance is used concurrently. We should use synchronized client with a remote HMS. This is also inline with how Hive creates metastore client.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13455
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13469