Sorry, my bad! the directory I loaded isn't exists yet. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Min Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys, > > I tried to add an external partition for my web_log table, but failed like > below, > > hive> ALTER TABLE web_log ADD PARTITION (logdate='20090519') LOCATION > '/user/zhoumin/web_log/20090519/'; > FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: > org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException > org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: > user=hive, access=WRITE, inode="web_log":..omitted...:rwxr-xr-x) > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask > > why this ddl command need write permission to the target location? Could I > solve it gracefully? > > Thanks, > Min > -- > My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and > bytecode based virtual machine. > > My profile: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay > My blog: > http://coderplay.javaeye.com > MIn -- My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and bytecode based virtual machine. My profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay My blog: http://coderplay.javaeye.com
