https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Reading-a-Hive-table-while-doing-insert-overwrite-on-a/m-p/220359#M182244 <P>I am doing an insert overwrite on a partition(static) which takes a few minutes to finish. I want to still query the same table with select command when am doing the insert. But the select query does not start running until the insert query finishes . I know the insert query gets an exclusive lock on just the partition I am writing to .I am trying to figure out why the select query is not able to just read all other partitions on which it can acquire a lock on</P> Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:28:38 GMT viswanath_kammu 2017-10-13T22:28:38Z