Re: unable to write partitions with HCatWriter on Cloudera with Sentry and HDFS ACL plugin

2018-09-25 Thread Nathan Bamford
Alex, Thank you for the response. I do see that all of the directories in question are owned by hive:hive, which makes sense, and indeed, writing to them from HCatWriter seems to be no problem. The problem arises in the

Re: unable to write partitions with HCatWriter on Cloudera with Sentry and HDFS ACL plugin

2018-09-24 Thread Alexander Kolbasov
Nathan, when Sentry is enabled, all files are supposed to be owned by hive:hive or impala:impala and permissions are managed via HDFS ACLs which are coordinated with Sentry. - Alex On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 1:15 PM Nathan Bamford < nathan.bamf...@redpointglobal.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We use

unable to write partitions with HCatWriter on Cloudera with Sentry and HDFS ACL plugin

2018-09-24 Thread Nathan Bamford
Hi, We use HCatWriter to write records to Hive, and I've recently run into a problem with HCatWriter that seems intractable. We can write tables without partitions all the live-long day, but any attempt to write to a partition results in the following error: