[HIVE-20455] Log spew from security.authorization.PrivilegeSynchonizer.run

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0, 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Daniel Dai
• Reporter: Gopal Vijayaraghavan
• Created: 24/Aug/18 07:27
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:55
• Resolved: 25/Aug/18 20:49

Description

Typo in the class name aside, this keeps running and thrashing through every single DB in the cluster if not all directories are actually accessible to the user who runs HS2.

2018-08-24T03:14:41,932  INFO [PrivilegeSynchonizer] metastore.HiveMetaStore: 1: get_table : tbl=hive.airline_ontime.flights_raw
2018-08-24T03:14:41,932  INFO [PrivilegeSynchonizer] HiveMetaStore.audit: ugi=gopal     ip=unknown-ip-addr      cmd=get_table : tbl=hive.airline_ontime.flights_raw

The minimum fix needed is to move the Thread.sleep() outside of the try/catch block, so that the sleep is triggered even if the attempt throws an exception.