Did you mean running "./bin/schematool -dbType derby -initSchema”? That didn’t help.
> On Mar 28, 2018, at 02:09, Mahesh Kumar Behera <mbeh...@hortonworks.com> > wrote: > > Try rebuilding your metastore db using the schema tool .. > > From: Chaoran Yu <yuchaoran2...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> > Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 10:53 AM > To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> > Subject: Hive master branch broken? > > Hi, <> > > I made some changes to a local Hive repo based on the latest master > branch. But somehow I got the following error when running a "CREATE TABLE" > statement in Hive shell: > > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: > MetaException(message:Insert of object > "org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.model.MSerDeInfo@ace2408" using statement > "INSERT INTO SERDES > (SERDE_ID,DESCRIPTION,DESERIALIZER_CLASS,"NAME",SERDE_TYPE,SLIB,SERIALIZER_CLASS) > VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)" failed : 'DESCRIPTION' is not a column in table or > VTI 'APP.SERDES'.) > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:Insert of > object "org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.model.MSerDeInfo@ace2408" using > statement "INSERT INTO SERDES > (SERDE_ID,DESCRIPTION,DESERIALIZER_CLASS,"NAME",SERDE_TYPE,SLIB,SERIALIZER_CLASS) > VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)" failed : 'DESCRIPTION' is not a column in table or > VTI 'APP.SERDES'.) > > No matter what table name or schema I create, I got the same error. I > remember testing my changes about three weeks ago using the master branch > back then, everything was working. It only started failing today after I > merged the latest commits in master. > > Is anyone aware of recent commits that might break this write code path? > And do we know when the next release of Hive is coming out? > > Thank you, > Chaoran Yu
