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Paul Yang commented on HIVE-1428:
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The unit tests that we have for the metastore run locally, so I don't think 
there's a way to use the existing framework for the thrift command - take a 
look at TestHiveMetastore.java. To test this, you would have to create a new 
JUnit test (or modify the existing one) to sets up a metastore server and 
issues commands (create table, drop table, etc) to it. Does that seem doable?

> ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION fails with a remote Thirft metastore
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1428
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1428
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Metastore
>    Affects Versions: 0.6.0, 0.7.0
>            Reporter: Paul Yang
>         Attachments: HIVE-1428.patch
>
>
> If the hive cli is configured to use a remote metastore, ALTER TABLE ... ADD 
> PARTITION commands will fail with an error similar to the following:
> {code}
> [prade...@chargesize:~/dev/howl]hive --auxpath ult-serde.jar -e "ALTER TABLE 
> mytable add partition(datestamp = '20091101', srcid = '10',action) location 
> '/user/pradeepk/mytable/20091101/10';"
> 10/06/16 17:08:59 WARN conf.Configuration: DEPRECATED: hadoop-site.xml found 
> in the classpath. Usage of hadoop-site.xml is deprecated. Instead use 
> core-site.xml, mapred-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml to override properties of 
> core-default.xml, mapred-default.xml and hdfs-default.xml respectively
> Hive history 
> file=/tmp/pradeepk/hive_job_log_pradeepk_201006161709_1934304805.txt
> FAILED: Error in metadata: org.apache.thrift.TApplicationException: 
> get_partition failed: unknown result
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask
> [prade...@chargesize:~/dev/howl]
> {code}
> This is due to a check that tries to retrieve the partition to see if it 
> exists. If it does not, an attempt is made to pass a null value from the 
> metastore. Since thrift does not support null return values, an exception is 
> thrown.

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