describe on a non existing table should throw an exception
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Key: HCATALOG-360
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-360
Project: HCatalog
Issue Type: Bug
Components: client
Affects Versions: 0.4
Reporter: David Capwell
In 0.2 if you did a describe table against a non existing table then an error
would be in the log and the return code was 9. In 0.4 the output looks like
this:
$ ./bin/hcat -e "describe non_existing_table"
Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated.
WARNING: org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter is deprecated. Please use
org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter in all the log4j.properties files.
Hive history
file=/tmp/dcapwell/hive_job_log_dcapwell_201204032317_1700443885.txt
OK
Table non_existing_table does not exist
Time taken: 2.35 seconds
$ echo $?
0
The return code should indicate that this was an error.
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