[HIVE-5158] allow getting all partitions for table to also use direct SQL path

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
• Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
• Created: 27/Aug/13 17:53
• Updated: 15/Oct/13 23:31
• Resolved: 06/Sep/13 14:58

Description

While testing some queries I noticed that getPartitions can be very slow (which happens e.g. in non-strict mode with no partition column filter); with a table with many partitions it can take 10-12s easily. SQL perf path can also be used for this path.