Hari Sankar Sivarama Subramaniyan created HIVE-6137: -------------------------------------------------------
Summary: 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)