Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
UpdateInputAccessTimeHook is usually used as a pre-execution hook to update the metastore's lastAccessTime field of input partition/table. If a query touches a large number of partitions, this hooks takes a long time to execute. One approach is to make the hook itself to run in a separate thread. But it is hard to guarantee backward compatibility in semantics in case of exceptions encountered in the hook execution. This task takes another approach to parallelize the hook itself (update multiple partitions concurrently), but execute each pre-hook in sequential order.