Thanks for the report. I have not seen this issue. Looks like the alter RPC is rejected by the Hive Metastore. Maybe looking into the Hive/Metastore logs would help.
The SHOW CREATE TABLE output might also help us debug. On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Piyush Narang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > > > I’m running into some issues when I try to compute incremental stats in > Impala that I was hoping someone would be able to help with. I’m able to > ‘compute stats’ in Impala on my smaller tables just fine. When I try > computing stats incrementally for one of my larger tables, I seem to be > running into this error: > > > compute incremental stats bi_ full partition (param1=0,day='2017-10-04', > hour=00,host_platform='EU'); > > Query: compute incremental stats bi_full partition > (param1=0,day='2017-10-04',hour=00,host_platform='EU') > > WARNINGS: ImpalaRuntimeException: Error making 'alter_partitions' RPC to > Hive Metastore: > > CAUSED BY: InvalidOperationException: alter is not possible > > > > Looking at impalad.INFO and catalogd.INFO I don’t see any additional > details. I verified that I’m the owner of the tables in HDFS. > > > > Has anyone run into this issue in the past? Any workarounds? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Piyush > > >
