[HIVE-22918] Investigate empty bucket file creation for ACID tables

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0
• Assignee: Marton Bod
• Reporter: Marta Kuczora
• Created: 21/Feb/20 10:58
• Updated: 04/Mar/20 15:29
• Resolved: 04/Mar/20 15:29

Description

When creating an insert-only bucketed table with 5 buckets, and we insert only one row to this table, Hive creates empty files for the other 4 buckets. This logic is in the code for ACID tables as well, but when checking the table's final directory after the insert, I found that only 1 files got created. When debugged this issue, I found that the empty files are created in the staging directory outside the delta directory, therefore they won't get copied by the move task to the final directory. This behavior seems broken, but not sure if we really need the empty files in this case.

This Jira is about investigating whether or not we need these empty files for ACID tables and if we do, fix the code to have them for ACID tables as well.

Repro steps: 

create table test_mm(key int, id int) clustered by (key) into 5 buckets stored as orc tblproperties("transactional"="true", "transactional_properties"="insert_only");

insert into test_mm values (1,1);

The following files are present in the 'test_mm/delta_0000001_0000001_0000' folder:

244 Feb 21 12:08 000000_0
  0 Feb 21 12:08 000001_0
  0 Feb 21 12:08 000002_0
  0 Feb 21 12:08 000003_0
  0 Feb 21 12:08 000004_0

create table test_acid(key int, id int) clustered by (key) into 5 buckets stored as orc tblproperties("transactional"="true");

insert into test_acid values (1,1);

The following files are present in the 'test_acid/delta_0000001_0000001_0000' folder:

  1 Feb 21 12:13 _orc_acid_version
656 Feb 21 12:13 bucket_00000

However when stopping in the MoveTask with the debugger, it can be seen that the staging directory contains the empty files, so they are generated. However the 000000_0 is not a file, it is a directory which contains the delta directory and the data file. When moving the data file to the final location, the move task will only move the files from the delta directory, so the empty files won't be moved.

ll test_acid/.hive-staging_hive_2020-02-21_12-16-58_615_787573577176141305-1/-ext-10000 
96 Feb 21 12:17 000000_0
0 Feb 21 12:17 000001_0
0 Feb 21 12:17 000002_0
0 Feb 21 12:17 000003_0
0 Feb 21 12:17 000004_0

ll test_acid/.hive-staging_hive_2020-02-21_12-16-58_615_787573577176141305-1/-ext-10000/000000_0/delta_0000001_0000001_0000 
  1 Feb 21 12:17 _orc_acid_version
656 Feb 21 12:17 bucket_00000

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-22941 Empty files are inserted into external tables after HIVE-21714 - workaround
• relates to: HIVE-22938 Investigate possibility of removing empty bucket file creation mechanism in Hive-on-MR