upgrade-0.6.0.mysql.sql script attempts to increase size of PK COLUMNS.TYPE_NAME to 4000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2011 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2011 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Affects Versions: 0.6.0 Reporter: Carl Steinbach Assignee: Carl Steinbach Priority: Blocker Fix For: 0.7.0 {code} # mysql flumenewresearch < upgrade-0.6.0.mysql.sql ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 16: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes {code} Here's the cause of the problem from upgrade-0.6.0.mysql.sql: {code} ... ALTER TABLE `COLUMNS` MODIFY `TYPE_NAME` VARCHAR(4000); ... ALTER TABLE `COLUMNS` DROP PRIMARY KEY; ALTER TABLE `COLUMNS` ADD PRIMARY KEY (`SD_ID`, `COLUMN_NAME`); ... {code} We need to make sure that the PK on COLUMNS.TYPE_NAME is dropped before the size of the column is bumped to 4000. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira