Oh interesting - you're saying instead of running a single HiveMetaStore thrift service, most users use the embedded HiveMetaStore mode and have each CLI instance connect to the DB directly?
--travis On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I feel that that interface is very rarely used in the wild. The only > use case I can figure out for it is people with very in depth hive > experience that do not wish to interact with hive through the QL > language. That being said I would think the coverage might be a little > weak there. With the local metastore users have data nucleus providing > support for reconnection etc. > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Travis Crawford > <traviscrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm using the thrift metastore via TFramedTransport. What value do you >> specify for hive.metastore.client.socket.timeout? I'm using 60. >> >> If I open the CLI, run "show tables", wait the timeout period, then >> run "show tables" the CLI hangs in: >> >> "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000004151a000 nid=0x448 runnable [0x0000000041b42000] >> java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE >> at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method) >> at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129) >> at >> org.apache.thrift.transport.TIOStreamTransport.read(TIOStreamTransport.java:127) >> at org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransport.readAll(TTransport.java:84) >> at >> org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.readFrame(TFramedTransport.java:129) >> at >> org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.read(TFramedTransport.java:101) >> at org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransport.readAll(TTransport.java:84) >> at >> org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readAll(TBinaryProtocol.java:378) >> at >> org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readI32(TBinaryProtocol.java:297) >> at >> org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readMessageBegin(TBinaryProtocol.java:204) >> at >> org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:69) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.recv_get_database(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:374) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.get_database(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:361) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getDatabase(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:705) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getDatabase(Hive.java:1077) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.databaseExists(Hive.java:1066) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.showTables(DDLTask.java:2004) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:325) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:134) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:57) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1329) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1115) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:948) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:412) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:750) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:613) >> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) >> at >> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) >> at >> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) >> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) >> at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:186) >> >> --travis >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Are you communicating with a thrift metastore or a JDBC metastore? I >>> have had connections opened for long periods of time and never >>> remember experiencing them timeout. >>> >>> Edward >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Travis Crawford >>> <traviscrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hey Hive gurus - >>>> >>>> Does anyone know how the CLI handles metastore connection timeouts? It >>>> seems if I leave a CLI session idle more than >>>> hive.metastore.client.socket.timeout seconds then run "show tables", >>>> the cli hangs for the timeout then throws a SocketTimeoutException. >>>> Restarting the CLI and running the same "show tables" always works. >>>> >>>> Does anyone else see this? My hive.metastore.client.socket.timeout is >>>> set to 60 - is that a reasonable value? >>>> >>>> --travis