hmm... Can you send the exact command and also the create table command for this table.
Ashish ________________________________ From: Pradeep Kamath [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: alter table add partition error Sorry - that was a cut-paste error - I don't have the action part - so I am specifying key-value pairs. Since what I am trying to do seems like a basic operation, I am wondering if it's something to do with my Serde - unfortunately the error I see gives me no clue of what could be wrong - any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Pradeep ________________________________ From: yq he [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: alter table add partition error Hi Pradeep, partition definition need to be key-value pairs. partition key `action` seems missed the value. Thanks Yongqiang On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Pradeep Kamath <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, I am trying to create an external table against already existing data in sequencefile format. However I have written a custom Serde to interpret the data. I am able to create the table fine but get the exception shown in the session output below when I try to add partition - any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Pradeep == session output === [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] == session output === /tmp/pradeepk/hive.log has: 2010-06-16 17:09:00,841 ERROR exec.DDLTask (SessionState.java:printError(269)) - FAILED: Error in metadata: org.apache.thrift.TApplicationException: get_partition failed: unknown result org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: org.apache.thrift.TApplicationException: get_partition failed: unknown result at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getPartition(Hive.java:778) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.addPartition(DDLTask.java:231) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:150) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:107) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:55) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:631) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:504) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:382) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:197) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:268) 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: org.apache.thrift.TApplicationException: get_partition failed: unknown result at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.recv_get_partition(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:931) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.get_partition(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:899) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getPartition(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:500) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getPartition(Hive.java:756) ... 15 more The thrift server messages are: 10/06/16 17:09:00 INFO metastore.HiveMetaStore: 22: get_table : db=default tbl=mytable 10/06/16 17:09:00 INFO metastore.HiveMetaStore: 22: Opening raw store with implemenation class:org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore 10/06/16 17:09:00 INFO metastore.ObjectStore: ObjectStore, initialize called 10/06/16 17:09:00 INFO metastore.ObjectStore: Initialized ObjectStore 10/06/16 17:09:00 INFO metastore.HiveMetaStore: 22: get_partition : db=default tbl=mytable
