Thanks a lot Nitin. I was able to drop the database.

One question i have, is there any documentation how to configure hcatalog
with hive.

Thanks
Biswa


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome to Hive :)
>
> Let us know if you faced any issues setting up hive (using pure apache
> distribution)  (just in case something missed in documentation)
> and keep raising your doubts :)
>
>
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> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Biswajit Nayak 
> <biswajit.na...@inmobi.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot.. I am a naive to hive..
>> On 4 Dec 2013 18:13, "Nitin Pawar" <nitinpawar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Exception clearly says "You are not allowed to drop the default
>>> database"
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Biswajit Nayak <
>>> biswajit.na...@inmobi.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I was trying to drop a database name "default" but every time it fails
>>>> with the below error message. While other commands works fine like " show
>>>> database"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hive> DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS default;
>>>> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:Can not drop
>>>> default database)
>>>> hive>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Biswajit
>>>>
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