[HIVE-5181] RetryingRawStore should not retry on logical failures (e.g. from commit)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Assignee: Prasad Suresh Mujumdar
• Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
• Created: 29/Aug/13 23:42
• Updated: 27/Jan/14 18:13
• Resolved: 25/Sep/13 05:01

Description

RetryingRawStore retries calls. Some method (e.g. drop_table_core in HiveMetaStore) explicitly call openTransaction and commitTransaction on RawStore.
When the commit call fails due to some real issue, it is retried, and instead of a real cause for failure one gets some bogus exception about transaction open count.

I doesn't make sense to retry logical errors, especially not from commitTransaction.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-4996 unbalanced calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction