[IMPALA-749] Impala cannot load tables with more than Short.MAX_VALUE number of partitions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 1.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.2.4
• Assignee: Lenni Kuff
• Reporter: Alan Choi
• Created: 14/Jan/14 04:33
• Updated: 28/Feb/14 04:18
• Resolved: 28/Feb/14 04:18

Description

Impala use HiveMetastoreClient.listPartitions() to retrieve the list of partitions. However, the "max_part" is a short. Therefore, if the number of partition exceed 32767, this API will return the first 32767 partitions only.