Cloudera Hive doesn't delete old base & delta after compaction

[#1]

When I run major compaction on hive, it creates new base. But doesn't delete old base & delta

[#2]

Hello,

Hive compaction runs first, then a cleaner thread waits for all readers to finish reading the old base/delta files. When it determines that nobody is reading the old files anymore, only then does the deletion of the old files occur. Please run SHOW COMPACTIONS and look at the state of the compaction in question.

Also would help to know which version are you on for CDH/HDP/CDP? If CDP, public or private cloud?

Hope this helps,

Alex