Better error message when a non-essential job fails ---------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1921 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1921 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Components: CLI Affects Versions: 0.7.0 Reporter: Paul Yang Assignee: Paul Yang Priority: Minor To determine whether a join can be converted into a map-join, a task is launched to determine memory requirements. If the task fails, then a normal join must be performed. This is not an error but the user sees a message like: {code} ... 2011-01-19 02:48:51 Processing rows: 1800000 Hashtable size: 1799999 Memory usage: 818546352 rate: 0.789 2011-01-19 02:48:57 Processing rows: 1900000 Hashtable size: 1899999 Memory usage: 861746352 rate: 0.831 2011-01-19 02:49:05 Processing rows: 2000000 Hashtable size: 1999999 Memory usage: 904921384 rate: 0.873 2011-01-19 02:49:12 Processing rows: 2100000 Hashtable size: 2099999 Memory usage: 952382416 rate: 0.918 FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapredLocalTask ATTEMPT: Execute BackupTask: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask Launching Job 2 out of 2 ... {code} The wording makes it seem as if something went wrong, which is not necessarily the case. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.