[HIVE-24828] [HMS] Provide new HMS API to return latest committed compaction record for a given table

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: HiveServer2
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Yu-Wen Lai
• Reporter: Kishen Das
• Created: 25/Feb/21 09:56
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:48
• Resolved: 08/Apr/21 15:54

Description

We need a new HMS API to return the latest committed compaction record for a given table. This can be used by a remote cache to decide whether a given table's file metadata has been compacted or not, in order to decide whether file metadata has to be refreshed from the file system before serving or it can serve the current data from the cache. 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2073