[HIVE-1100] Make it possible for users to retry map-reduce jobs in a single Hive query

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Assignee: Zheng Shao
• Reporter: Zheng Shao
• Created: 26/Jan/10 00:05
• Updated: 23/Feb/10 00:35

Description

Sometimes a single hive query get compiled into several map-reduce jobs, and one of the jobs failed because of some transient errors.
Users would need to start from scratch.

We should allow the user to start from the point of failure to continue the query.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HIVE-1189 Add package-info.java to Hive
• is blocked by: HIVE-1159 QueryPlan.outputs should be determined at compile time
• is blocked by: HIVE-1108 QueryPlan to be independent from BaseSemanticAnalyzer
• is blocked by: HIVE-1109 Structured temporary directories
• is blocked by: HIVE-1117 Make QueryPlan serializable
• is related to: HIVE-480 allow option to retry map-reduce tasks