Impala insert overwrite corruption possible

[#1]

The questions is actually simple:
What happens if during an INSERT OVERWRITE of a table/partition an error occurs: power failure , underlying files is removed and so on. Is the table/partition corrupt or is it automatically restored because the metadata of the impala table is not up te date on the nodes.
Situation
We have a partitioned table ( 144 partitions a day ) and each partition has about 700-800 files.
We do an automatic INSERT OVERWRITE of partitions that are not to be changed anymore. The number of files reduces to 4-5, very nice.

[#2]

Hello @dirkj ,

the answer to your question is in the source code of the INSERT OVERWRITE in a form of comments under FinalizeHdfsInsert.

Please let us know if you need further clarification on it!

Best regards:

Ferenc