[HIVE-7241] Wrong lock acquired for alter table rename partition

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Locking
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 16/Jun/14 21:17
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:42
• Resolved: 24/Jun/14 05:42

Description

Doing an "alter table foo partition (bar='x') rename to partition (bar='y')" acquires a read lock on table foo. It should instead acquire an exclusive lock on partition bar=x.

Issue Links

• requires: HIVE-7202 DbTxnManager deadlocks in hcatalog.cli.TestSematicAnalysis.testAlterTblFFpart()