When I try to select from a table being backed by an elastic search index I get this error (Plus some logging I added to try and see what was going on):
2012-04-26 18:57:15,502 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator: Path to aliases is: {hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hive/warehouse/elastic_search_profile_2=[elastic_search_profile_2]} 2012-04-26 18:57:15,670 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator: Adding alias elastic_search_profile_2 to work list for file hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hive/warehouse/elastic_search_profile_2 2012-04-26 18:57:15,671 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator: Configuration does not have any alias for path: /dev/null 2012-04-26 18:57:15,675 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskLogsTruncater: Initializing logs' truncater with mapRetainSize=-1 and reduceRetainSize=-1 2012-04-26 18:57:15,742 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child: Error running child java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:432) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:372) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:255) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1059) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:249) Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 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.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88) ... 9 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.configure(MapRunner.java:34) ... 14 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 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.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88) ... 17 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Map operator initialization failed at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecMapper.configure(ExecMapper.java:121) ... 22 more Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Configuration and input path are inconsistent at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.setChildren(MapOperator.java:404) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecMapper.configure(ExecMapper.java:90) ... 22 more Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Configuration and input path are inconsistent at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.setChildren(MapOperator.java:398) ... 23 more 2012-04-26 18:57:15,761 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task: Runnning cleanup for the task I'm not sure what this alias map is and how it gets populated. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tristan