fix: optimistic delete guard prevents stale DROP from overwriting renamed Glue table #141
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…named tables in Glue Replaces unconditional delete() calls with deleteIfUnchanged() in GlueTableService. Before deleting a Glue table, fetches the current state and compares transient_lastDdlTime and metadata_location against the HMS event. If either differs the delete is skipped with a WARN log, preventing a stale DROP event from undoing a concurrent Iceberg rename that landed on a different Kafka partition and was processed first. Fixes: #140 (Bug 1 only — the orphaned old Iceberg entry requires a separate fix to the isIcebergPredicate guard). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
onDropTable, onDropTableThatDoesntExistInGlue, and onAlterHiveTable_RenameTable now call deleteIfUnchanged which issues a GetTable before DeleteTable. Added getTable stubs returning an empty Glue table so the identity checks pass and the delete proceeds as the tests expect. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
delete()calls inGlueTableServicewith a newdeleteIfUnchanged()method that guards against a race condition in multi-partition Kafka (DroneFly) deploymentsDeleteTable, fetches the current Glue state and comparestransient_lastDdlTimeandmetadata_locationagainst the HMS event; skips the delete with a WARN log if either differsFixes Bug 1 from #140. Bug 2 (orphaned
_icebergentry) requires a separate change to theisIcebergPredicateguard inonAlterTableand is not addressed here.How it works
When a DROP and a RENAME touch the same table name via different Kafka partitions, the RENAME pod may process first and write a new
transient_lastDdlTimeto Glue. When the DROP pod runs,deleteIfUnchangedfetches the current Glue entry and sees the timestamp no longer matches the HMS event — skipping the delete and leaving the renamed table intact.The two events land on different partitions because
KafkaMessageSenderhashesqualifiedTableNameto select a partition, andKafkaMetaStoreEventListeneruses the old table name for ALTER events. SoDROP db.tablekeys ondb.tableandRENAME db.table_iceberg → db.tablekeys ondb.table_iceberg— different strings, different partitions, different consumer pods, no ordering guarantee between them.Safe in direct-HMS deployments: HMS does not update
transient_lastDdlTimeon DROP, so the event value always matches the last-synced Glue value and the delete proceeds normally.Caveat: if a prior sync failed (transient Glue error), params will diverge and the delete will be skipped, leaving an orphan. An orphan is intentionally preferred over incorrectly deleting a table that has since been overwritten by a rename.
Test plan
GlueTableServiceTest— new test class covering alldeleteIfUnchangedbranches: match deletes, each identity param mismatch skips,EntityNotFoundExceptionskips, null param maps on either side, diverging non-null valuesApiaryGlueSyncTestpasses unchangedmvn test -pl hive-event-listeners/apiary-gluesync-listener🤖 Generated with Claude Code