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Hari Sankar Sivarama Subramaniyan updated HIVE-6137: ---------------------------------------------------- Description: Hive should report that the file/path doesn’t exist when it doesn’t (it now reports SocketTimeoutException): Execute a Hive DDL query with a reference to a non-existent blob (such as CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE...) and check Hive logs (stderr): FAILED: Error in metadata: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask This error message is not intuitive. If a file doesn't exist, Hive should report FileNotFoundException was: Hive should report that the file/path doesn’t exist when it doesn’t (it now reports SocketTimeoutException): Execute a Hive DDL query with a reference to a non-existent blob (such as CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE...) and check Hive logs (stderr): FAILED: Error in metadata: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask This error message is not intuitive. If a file doesn't exist, Hive should report FileNotFoundException. > Hive should report that the file/path doesn’t exist when it doesn’t (it now > reports SocketTimeoutException) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6137 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6137 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Hari Sankar Sivarama Subramaniyan > Assignee: Hari Sankar Sivarama Subramaniyan > > Hive should report that the file/path doesn’t exist when it doesn’t (it now > reports SocketTimeoutException): > Execute a Hive DDL query with a reference to a non-existent blob (such as > CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE...) and check Hive logs (stderr): > FAILED: Error in metadata: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: > java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask > This error message is not intuitive. If a file doesn't exist, Hive should > report FileNotFoundException -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)