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Brock Noland commented on HIVE-5631:
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Sorry for the terrible error message. I need to improve this. That means all
nodes went bad during testing. I am monitoring and will re-submit your patch
for another round of testing.
> Index creation on a skew table fails
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>
> Key: HIVE-5631
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5631
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Database/Schema
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0
> Reporter: Venki Korukanti
> Assignee: Venki Korukanti
> Fix For: 0.13.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-5631.1.patch.txt, HIVE-5631.2.patch.txt
>
>
> REPRO STEPS:
> create database skewtest;
> use skewtest;
> create table skew (id bigint, acct string) skewed by (acct) on ('CC','CH');
> create index skew_indx on table skew (id) as
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.index.compact.CompactIndexHandler' WITH DEFERRED
> REBUILD;
> Last DDL fails with following error.
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.
> InvalidObjectException(message:Invalid skew column [acct])
> When creating a table, Hive has sanity tests to make sure the columns have
> proper names and the skewed columns are subset of the table columns. Here we
> fail because index table has skewed column info. Index tables's skewed
> columns include {acct} and the columns are {id, _bucketname, _offsets}. As
> the skewed column {acct} is not part of the table columns Hive throws the
> exception.
> The reason why Index table got skewed column info even though its definition
> has no such info is: When creating the index table a deep copy of the base
> table's StorageDescriptor (SD) (in this case 'skew') is made. And in that
> copied SD, index specific parameters are set and unrelated parameters are
> reset. Here skewed column info is not reset (there are few other params that
> are not reset). That's why the index table contains the skewed column info.
> Fix: Instead of deep copying the base table StorageDescriptor, create a new
> one from gathered info. This way it avoids the index table to inherit
> unnecessary properties in SD from base table.
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