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Jakob Homan commented on HIVE-2338:
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+1 with the nit that the comment about that code being reached only if the
try-catch-finally isn't triggered isn't particularly helpful since it describes
the obvious path through the code and won't be interesting once this patch goes
in.
> Alter table always throws an unhelpful error on failure
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> Key: HIVE-2338
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2338
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Metastore
> Reporter: Sohan Jain
> Assignee: Sohan Jain
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HIVE-2338.1.patch
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> Every failure in an alter table function always return a MetaException. When
> altering tables and catching exceptions, we throw a MetaException in the
> "finally" part of a try-catch-finally block, which overrides any other
> exceptions thrown.
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