Ben created HIVE-8564: ------------------------- Summary: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS throws exception if the table does not exist. Key: HIVE-8564 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8564 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: HiveServer2 Affects Versions: 0.13.1 Reporter: Ben Priority: Minor
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS throws exception if the table does not exist. I tried set hive.exec.drop.ignorenonexistent=true, and it made no difference. hive> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS testdb.mytable; 14/10/22 15:48:29 ERROR metadata.Hive: NoSuchObjectException(message:testdb.mytable table not found) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_table_result$get_table_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:29338) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_table_result$get_table_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:29306) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_table_result.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:29237) at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:78) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.recv_get_table(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1036) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.get_table(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1022) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getTable(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:997) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.invoke(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:89) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy7.getTable(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTable(Hive.java:975) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTable(Hive.java:930) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTable(Hive.java:917) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.dropTableOrPartitions(DDLTask.java:3846) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:306) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:153) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:85) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1503) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1270) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1088) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:911) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:901) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:268) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:220) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:423) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:792) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:686) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) OK -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)