[HIVE-12224] Remove HOLD_DDLTIME

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Assignee: Ashutosh Chauhan
• Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan
• Created: 21/Oct/15 18:11
• Updated: 16/Feb/16 23:52
• Resolved: 23/Oct/15 16:29

Description

This arcane feature was introduced long ago via HIVE-1394 It was broken as soon as it landed, HIVE-1442 and is thus useless. Fact that no one has fixed it since informs that its not really used by anyone. Better is to remove it so no one hits the bug of HIVE-1442

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-1394 do not update transient_lastDdlTime if the partition is modified by a housekeeping operation
• links to: RB request