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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com> wrote: > yeah. that's a potential idea too. gotta put the time in to script it > with 200+ tables though. > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Furcy Pin <furcy....@flaminem.com> > wrote: > >> Did you try ALTER TABLE ... SET LOCATION ... ? maybe it could have worked. >> >> >> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Vihang Karajgaonkar <vih...@cloudera.com >> > wrote: >> >>> This is interesting and possibly a bug. Did you try changing them to >>> managed tables and then dropping or truncating them? How do we reproduce >>> this on our setup? >>> >>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> fwiw. i ended up re-creating the ec2 cluster with that same host name >>>> just so i could drop those tables from the metastore. >>>> >>>> note to self. be careful - be real careful - with "sharing" hive >>>> metastores between different compute paradigms. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Stephen. >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> hey guys, >>>>> here's something bizarre. i created about 200 external tables with a >>>>> location something like this 'hdfs://<ec2-host>/path'. this was three >>>>> months ago and now i'm revisiting and want to drop these tables. >>>>> >>>>> ha! no can do! >>>>> >>>>> that <ec2-host> is long gone. >>>>> >>>>> Upon issuing the drop table command i get this: >>>>> >>>>> Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code >>>>> 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. >>>>> MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: >>>>> java.net.UnknownHostException: <ec2-host>) >>>>> >>>>> where <ec2-host> is that old host name. >>>>> >>>>> so i ask is there a work around for this? given they are external >>>>> tables i'm surprised it "checks" that that location exists (or not.) >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Stephen >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
