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Ashish Thusoo commented on HIVE-1428:
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Is your question the fact that build.dir is an empty string? build.dir gets
defined in build-common.xml which inturn picks properties from
build.properties. The build.xml in the metastore directory includes
build-common.xml so it should be getting build.dir. How are you running this
test?
> 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, TestHiveMetaStoreRemote.java
>
>
> 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:
> [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]
> 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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