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(Updated 2011-08-03 23:59:06.774216)


Review request for hive and Paul Yang.


Changes
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-remove unecessary comment


Summary
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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 patch moves the code to throw an error on a commit failure outside of the 
try-catch-finally block.  So any errors within the try block are thrown 
properly.  Only when success == false will we throw a MetaException.


This addresses bug HIVE-2338.
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2338


Diffs (updated)
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trunk/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java 
1152020 

Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/1276/diff


Testing
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Tested failing alter table metastore commands; they threw 
InvalidOperationExceptions as they should, instead of meaningless 
MetaExceptions.


Thanks,

Sohan



> 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
>         Attachments: HIVE-2338.1.patch, HIVE-2338.2.patch
>
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> 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.

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