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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on HIVE-21402:
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I am unsure of how to deal with unchecked exceptions. IMHO, its not useful to
catch Throwable since in case of unchecked exception its very likely that
compaction will fail in next iteration too, likely that error will be
encountered every time (e.g., was the case here of missing jar). In such cases,
its better to let Throwable escape (or raise InterrruptedException) so that its
dealt with in caller which should then fail the process. For end user its not
useful that HS2 keeps on running where every compaction fails.
On the other hand there is already catch(Throwable) in the outer loop :
https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/txn/compactor/Worker.java#L238
> Compaction state remains 'working' when major compaction fails
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>
> Key: HIVE-21402
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21402
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Transactions
> Affects Versions: 4.0.0
> Reporter: Peter Vary
> Assignee: Peter Vary
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: HIVE-21402.patch
>
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> When calcite is not on the HMS classpath, and query based compaction is
> enabled then the compaction fails with NoClassDefFound error. Since the catch
> block only catches Exceptions the following code block is not executed:
> {code:java}
> } catch (Exception e) {
> LOG.error("Caught exception while trying to compact " + ci +
> ". Marking failed to avoid repeated failures, " +
> StringUtils.stringifyException(e));
> msc.markFailed(CompactionInfo.compactionInfoToStruct(ci));
> msc.abortTxns(Collections.singletonList(compactorTxnId));
> }
> {code}
> So the compaction is not set to failed.
> Would be better to catch Throwable instead of Exception
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