[HIVE-12730] MetadataUpdater: provide a mechanism to edit the basic statistics of a table (or a partition)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: Statistics
• Assignee: Pengcheng Xiong
• Reporter: Pengcheng Xiong
• Created: 22/Dec/15 20:47
• Updated: 18/Nov/19 09:03
• Resolved: 19/Feb/16 16:27

Description

We would like to provide a way for developers/users to modify the numRows and dataSize for a table/partition. Right now although they are part of the table properties, they will be set to -1 when the task is not coming from a statsTask.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-8648 numRows cannot be set by user
• is related to: HIVE-17189 Fix backwards incompatibility in HiveMetaStoreClient
• is related to: HIVE-7506 MetadataUpdater: provide a mechanism to edit the statistics of a column in a table (or a partition of a table)
• links to: RB

Sub-Tasks

• Cleanup metastore to put unnecessary parameters in EnvironmentContext: Patch Available