Hive scanning entire data for bucketed table

Question

I was trying to optimize a hive SQL by bucketing the data on a single column. I created the table with following statement

CREATE TABLE `source_bckt`(
  `uk` string, 
  `data` string)
CLUSTERED BY(uk) SORTED BY(uk) INTO 10 BUCKETS

Then inserted the data after executing "set hive.enforce.bucketing = true;"

When I run the following select "select * from source_bckt where uk='1179724';" Even though the data is supposed to be in a single file which can be identified by the following equation HASH('1179724')%10 the mapreduce spawned scans through the entire set of files.

Any idea?

Answer 1

This optimization is not supported yet.
Current JIRA ticket status is PATCH AVAILABLE

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5831