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Edward Capriolo updated HIVE-2644: ---------------------------------- Affects Version/s: 0.8.0 > Produce better error message when warehouse is not writable > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2644 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2644 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Task > Affects Versions: 0.8.0 > Reporter: Edward Capriolo > > This error is caused my not having a /user/hive/warehouse in local mode and > because it is not writeable. We can possibly check this a precondition and > produce a nicer error. > {noformat} > [edward@tablitha hive-0.8.0-bin]$ bin/hive > Logging initialized using configuration in > jar:file:/home/edward/hive-0.8.0-bin/lib/hive-common-0.8.0.jar!/hive-log4j.properties > Hive history file=/tmp/edward/hive_job_log_edward_201112101317_904348940.txt > hive> create table abc (a int, b int); > FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: > java.io.FileNotFoundException File file:/user/hive/warehouse/abc does not > exist.) > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask > hive> dfs -ls /user/hive/warehouse > > ; > hive> create table abcd (a int, b int); > FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: > java.io.FileNotFoundException File file:/user/hive/warehouse/abcd does not > exist.) > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask > hive> exit; > [edward@tablitha hive-0.8.0-bin]$ bin/hive^C > [edward@tablitha hive-0.8.0-bin]$ su - > Password: > {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira