[HIVE-9683] Hive metastore thrift client connections hang indefinitely

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Release Note: Client TCP keep-alive for Thrift as a workaround for THRIFT-2788
• Assignee: Gopal Vijayaraghavan
• Reporter: Gopal Vijayaraghavan
• Created: 13/Feb/15 03:05
• Updated: 22/May/15 03:40
• Resolved: 17/Feb/15 19:16

Description

THRIFT-2788 fixed network-partition problems that affect Thrift client connections.

Since hive-1.0 is on thrift-0.9.0 which is affected by the bug, a workaround can be applied to prevent indefinite connection hangs during net-splits.