HIVE-29225: Premature deletion of scratch directories during output streaming #6099
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ROOT-CAUSE:
Please see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-29225 for the detailed problem description and steps to reproduce. In short, scratch directories may be deleted prematurely while Hive is still streaming output to the client.
SOLUTION:
A new configuration property has been introduced:
This property defines a grace period to prevent cleanup of scratch directories that have been modified within the specified time window.
0h
(disabled by default).This ensures directories are not removed prematurely while still in use.
TESTING:

Added a dedicated unit test to validate the new functionality:
Verified that all existing tests in

TestClearDanglingScratchDir
continue to pass: