Prasad Mujumdar created HIVE-5456: ------------------------------------- Summary: Queries fail on avro backed table with empty partition Key: HIVE-5456 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5456 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Query Processor Affects Versions: 0.11.0 Reporter: Prasad Mujumdar
The following query fails {noformat} DROP TABLE IF EXISTS episodes_partitioned; CREATE TABLE episodes_partitioned PARTITIONED BY (doctor_pt INT) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' TBLPROPERTIES ('avro.schema.literal'='{ "namespace": "testing.hive.avro.serde", "name": "episodes", "type": "record", "fields": [ { "name":"title", "type":"string", "doc":"episode title" }, { "name":"air_date", "type":"string", "doc":"initial date" }, { "name":"doctor", "type":"int", "doc":"main actor playing the Doctor in episode" } ] }'); ALTER TABLE episodes_partitioned ADD PARTITION (doctor_pt=4); ALTER TABLE episodes_partitioned ADD PARTITION (doctor_pt=5); SELECT COUNT(*) FROM episodes_partitioned; {noformat} with following exception {noformat} java.io.IOException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerdeException: Neither avro.schema.literal nor avro.schema.url specified, can't determine table schema at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat.getHiveRecordWriter(AvroContainerOutputFormat.java:61) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Utilities.createEmptyFile(Utilities.java:2869) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Utilities.createDummyFileForEmptyPartition(Utilities.java:2901) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Utilities.getInputPaths(Utilities.java:2825) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecDriver.execute(ExecDriver.java:381) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask.execute(MapRedTask.java:136) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:151) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1409) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1187) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1015) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:883) 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:413) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:348) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processReader(CliDriver.java:446) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processFile(CliDriver.java:456) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:737) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:614) {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)