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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-1872: ---------------------------------- Yongqiang, can you take a look ? I dont remember the exact usecase, but remember some discussions around it > Hive process is exiting on executing ALTER query > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-1872 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1872 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: CLI, Server Infrastructure > Affects Versions: 0.6.0 > Environment: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (i586) - Kernel > 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp (3) > Hadoop 0.20.1 > Hive 0.6.0 > Reporter: Bharath R > Attachments: HIVE-1872.1.patch > > > Hive process is exiting on executing the below queries in the same order as > mentioned > 1) CREATE TABLE SAMPLETABLE(IP STRING , showtime BIGINT ) partitioned by (ds > string,ipz int) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\040' > 2) ALTER TABLE SAMPLETABLE add Partition(ds='sf') location > '/user/hive/warehouse' Partition(ipz=100) location '/user/hive/warehouse' > After the second query execution , the hive throws the below exception and > exiting the process > 10:09:03 ERROR exec.DDLTask: FAILED: Error in metadata: table is partitioned > but partition spec is not specified or tab: {ipz=100} > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: table is partitioned but > partition spec is not specified or tab: {ipz=100} > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.isValidSpec(Table.java:341) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getPartition(Hive.java:902) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.addPartition(DDLTask.java:282) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:191) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:107) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:55) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:633) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:506) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:384) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.HiveServer$HiveServerHandler.execute(HiveServer.java:114) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.ThriftHive$Processor$execute.process(ThriftHive.java:378) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.ThriftHive$Processor.process(ThriftHive.java:366) > at > org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:252) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) > As the "alter" query is incorrect the exception was thrown, ideally it should > be "ALTER TABLE SAMPLETABLE add Partition(ds='sf',ipz=100) location > '/user/hive/warehouse'". > It is not good to exit the HIVE process when the query is incorrect. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.