Ivan Suller created HIVE-22060:
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Summary: Replacing "catch Throwable" with a more restricted
exception class
Key: HIVE-22060
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-22060
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Hive
Reporter: Ivan Suller
Assignee: Ivan Suller
Catching Throwable considered unsafe in Java. A Throwable can be any Error and
those are JVM errors after the state of the JVM is not guaranteed thus the
cleanest way to "handle" the error is to let it kill the current thread.
I ran a quick scan and found almost 400 "catch Throwable" in the current
codebase. I opened this ticket as a conversation starter to:
- discuss if we want to eliminate this issue
- if we want to do it what's the best way to do it
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