[HIVE-3680] Include Table information in Hive's AddPartitionEvent.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.1, 0.10.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
• Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
• Created: 07/Nov/12 00:30
• Updated: 10/Jan/13 19:53
• Resolved: 15/Nov/12 16:09

Description

This has to do with a minor overhaul of the HCatalog notifications that we're attempting in HCATALOG-546.

It is proposed that HCatalog's notifications (on Add/Drop of Partitions) provide details to identify the affected partitions.

Using the Partition object in AddPartitionEvent, one is able to retrieve the values of the partition-keys and the name of the Table. However, the partition-keys themselves aren't available (since the Table instance isn't part of the AddPartitionEvent).

Adding the table-reference to the AddPartitionEvent and DropPartitionEvent classes will expose all the info we need. (The alternative is to query the metastore for the table's schema and use the partition-keys from there. :/)

I'll post a patch for this shortly.

Issue Links

• blocks: HCATALOG-546 Rework HCatalog's JMS Notifications