[HIVE-8629] Streaming / ACID : hive cli session creation takes too long and times out if execution engine is tez

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: HCatalog
• Labels: ACID Streaming
• Release Note: Patch committed to trunk and branch 0.14. Thanks Roshan.
• Tags: Streaming
• Assignee: Roshan Naik
• Reporter: Roshan Naik
• Created: 28/Oct/14 03:25
• Updated: 01/Oct/19 22:07
• Resolved: 29/Oct/14 23:34

Description

When creating a hive session to run basic "alter table create partition" queries, the session creation takes too long (more than 5 sec) if the hive execution engine is set to tez.

Since the streaming clients dont care about Tez , it can explicitly override the setting to mr.