Alter table always throws an unhelpful error on failure -------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2338 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2338 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Reporter: Sohan Jain Assignee: Sohan Jain Priority: Minor Every failure in an alter table function always return a MetaException. When altering tables and catching exceptions, we throw a MetaException in the "finally" part of a try-catch-finally block, which overrides any other exceptions thrown. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira