rdblue commented on a change in pull request #406: Throw an exception when
using Iceberg with Spark embedded metastore
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-iceberg/pull/406#discussion_r317698081
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File path: hive/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveTableOperations.java
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@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ public void commit(TableMetadata base, TableMetadata
metadata) {
}
threw = false;
} catch (TException | UnknownHostException e) {
+ if (e.getMessage().contains("Table/View 'HIVE_LOCKS' does not exist")) {
+ LOG.error("Failed to acquire locks from metastore because 'HIVE_LOCKS'
doesn't exist, " +
+ "this probably happened when using embedded metastore or doesn't
create transactional" +
+ " meta table. Please reconfigure and start the metastore.", e);
Review comment:
This recommendation isn't very helpful because it isn't clear what "the
metastore" is. How about this instead: "To fix this, use an alternative
metastore".
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