[HIVE-3666] implement a udf to keep hive session alive for certain amount of time

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: UDF
• Assignee: Johnny Zhang
• Reporter: Johnny Zhang
• Created: 03/Nov/12 00:30
• Updated: 07/Jul/13 15:54

Description

To make testing issues like HIVE-3590 convenient, we can implement a UDF to keep hive session alive for a given time. The patch introduce a new UDF sleep() which does this without introducing any data/load to cluster.