ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION fails with a remote Thirft metastore
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Key: HIVE-1428
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1428
Project: Hadoop Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Metastore
Affects Versions: 0.6.0, 0.7.0
Reporter: Paul Yang
If the hive cli is configured to use a remote metastore, ALTER TABLE ... ADD
PARTITION commands will fail with an error similar to the following:
{code}
[prade...@chargesize:~/dev/howl]hive --auxpath ult-serde.jar -e "ALTER TABLE
mytable add partition(datestamp = '20091101', srcid = '10',action) location
'/user/pradeepk/mytable/20091101/10';"
10/06/16 17:08:59 WARN conf.Configuration: DEPRECATED: hadoop-site.xml found in
the classpath. Usage of hadoop-site.xml is deprecated. Instead use
core-site.xml, mapred-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml to override properties of
core-default.xml, mapred-default.xml and hdfs-default.xml respectively
Hive history
file=/tmp/pradeepk/hive_job_log_pradeepk_201006161709_1934304805.txt
FAILED: Error in metadata: org.apache.thrift.TApplicationException:
get_partition failed: unknown result
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask
[prade...@chargesize:~/dev/howl]
{code}
This is due to a check that tries to retrieve the partition to check if it
exists. If it does not, an attempt is made to pass a null partition value from
the metastore. Since thrift does not support null return values, an exception
is thrown when the CLI is configured to use a remote metastore.
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