Details
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Bug
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Status: In Progress
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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2.3.7, 2.3.8
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None
Description
Use Hive Beeline and CLI to execute the following command:
alter table xxx.xxx partition(xxx) set location 'xxx';
If don't execute use <schema> first, there will fail with the error:
Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unable to alter partition. Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist. even if the table does exist.
and more info:
2021-06-08T07:37:21,596 ERROR [pool-6-thread-173] metastore.RetryingHMSHandler: InvalidOperationException(message:Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist.)2021-06-08T07:37:21,596 ERROR [pool-6-thread-173] metastore.RetryingHMSHandler: InvalidOperationException(message:Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist.) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_partitions_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStore.java:3908) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor100.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invokeInternal(RetryingHMSHandler.java:148) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:107) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy27.alter_partitions_with_environment_context(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_partitions_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:12598) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_partitions_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:12582) at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:110) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:106) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1698) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor.process(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:118) at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:286) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
but when execute add/drop partition, don't need to follow this mode.
