'create if not exists' fails for a table name with 'select' in it -----------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1176 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1176 Project: Hadoop Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore, Query Processor Reporter: Prasad Chakka hive> create table if not exists tmp_select(s string, c string, n int); org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(message:Got exception: javax.jdo.JDOUserException JDOQL Single-String query should always start with SELECT) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTablesForDb(Hive.java:441) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTablesByPattern(Hive.java:423) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeCreateTable(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5538) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5192) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:105) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:275) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runCommand(Driver.java:320) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:312) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:123) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:181) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:287) 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.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Caused by: MetaException(message:Got exception: javax.jdo.JDOUserException JDOQL Single-String query should always start with SELECT) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.logAndThrowMetaException(MetaStoreUtils.java:612) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getTables(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:450) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTablesForDb(Hive.java:439) ... 15 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.