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  1. Hive
  2. HIVE-7090

Support session-level temporary tables in Hive

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 0.14.0
    • SQL
    • None

    Description

      It's common to see sql scripts that create some temporary table as an intermediate result, run some additional queries against it and then clean up at the end.

      We should support temporary tables properly, meaning automatically manage the life cycle and make sure the visibility is restricted to the creating connection/session. Without these it's common to see left over tables in meta-store or weird errors with clashing tmp table names.

      Proposed syntax:

      CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ....

      CTAS, CTL, INSERT INTO, should all be supported as usual.

      Knowing that a user wants a temp table can enable us to further optimize access to it. E.g.: temp tables should be kept in memory where possible, compactions and merging table files aren't required, ...

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        1. HIVE-7090.1.patch
          85 kB
          Gunther Hagleitner
        2. HIVE-7090.2.patch
          96 kB
          Jason Dere
        3. HIVE-7090.3.patch
          96 kB
          Jason Dere
        4. HIVE-7090.4.patch
          208 kB
          Jason Dere
        5. HIVE-7090.5.patch
          213 kB
          Jason Dere
        6. HIVE-7090.6.patch
          212 kB
          Jason Dere
        7. HIVE-7090.7.patch
          214 kB
          Jason Dere
        8. HIVE-7090.8.patch
          218 kB
          Jason Dere
        9. HIVE-7090.9.patch
          218 kB
          Jason Dere

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