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Jakob Homan updated HIVE-2774: ------------------------------ Attachment: HIVE-2774.patch Quick patch that adds the offending table name to the message. Not easily testable and easily reasonable, so no tests. > Message when trying to create a view from a view should give name of > offending view > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2774 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2774 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor > Affects Versions: 0.7.1 > Reporter: Jakob Homan > Assignee: Jakob Homan > Fix For: 0.9.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-2774.patch > > > Currently when trying to create a view that contains another view (a > prohibited operation) the exception is: > {noformat}FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Invalid Table Alias Referencing > view from foreign databases is not supported.{noformat} > 'Twould be better if this message included the view that caused the error so > that when building views from lots of tables, one doesn't need to hunt to > figure out which one was the actual view. -- 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