Impala show table stats - total of rows doesn't sum up

[#1]

Hi,

I'm using the Impala function "show table stats":

show table stats table1;

 
I get following results

business_date	tec_execution_date	#Rows	#Files	Size	Bytes Cached	Cache Replication	Format
13/05/2020	13/05/2020 20:08	0	0	0B	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
14/07/2020	15/07/2020 16:39	6	1	16.08KB	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
15/07/2020	16/07/2020 16:07	770	2	114.68KB	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
16/07/2020	20/07/2020 16:50	272	1	41.88KB	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
17/07/2020	21/07/2020 12:38	290	1	45.33KB	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
20/07/2020	20/07/2020 12:16	379	1	51.10KB	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
21/07/2020	22/07/2020 12:45	156	1	31.50KB	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
24/07/2020	24/07/2020 15:15	278	1	40.26KB	NOT CACHED	NOT CACHED	PARQUET
Total		2431	8	340.84KB	0B

However if I sum up the rows in column "#Rows" I get 2151...!

Am I'm missing something? How is that possible?

Thanks

Thanks

[#2 · Accepted solution]

The row counts reflect the status of the partition or table the last time its stats were updated by "compute stats" in Impala (or analyze in Hive). Or that the stats were updated manually via an alter table. (There are also other cases where stats are updated, e.g. they can be automatically gathered by hive, but those are a few examples).

One scenario where this could happen is if a partition was dropped since the last compute stats was run.

The stats generally can be out of sync with the # of rows in the underlying table - we don't use them for answering queries, just for query optimization, so it's fine if they're a little inaccurate.

If you want to know the accurate counts, you can run queries like

  select count(*) from table;
  select count(*) from table where business_date = "13/05/2020" and tec_execution_date = "13/05/2020 20:08;