[HIVE-17229] HiveMetastore HMSHandler locks during initialization, even though its static variable threadPool is not null

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Zac Zhou
• Reporter: Zac Zhou
• Created: 02/Aug/17 08:49
• Updated: 23/May/18 00:00
• Resolved: 07/Nov/17 15:51

Description

A thread pool is used to accelerate adding partitions operation, since HIVE-13901.

However, HMSHandler needs a lock during initialization every time, even though its static variable threadPool is not null