Brian Kessler created HIVE-9180: ----------------------------------- Summary: Input parsing failing for ALTER TABLE when database and table are specified Key: HIVE-9180 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9180 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: CLI Affects Versions: 0.12.0 Environment: Cloudera Hadoop distribution CDH5.1.3 Reporter: Brian Kessler Priority: Minor
The following appears to fail due to an input parsing error ALTER TABLE database.table SET FILEFORMAT RCFile; but can be worked around by using the database so it does not need to be explicitly specified in the command at the hive interpreter. USE database; ALTER TABLE table SET FILEFORMAT RCFile; See below for stack trace followed by successful workaround. hive> ALTER TABLE dev.bk_smp_advertiser_events_rcfile SET FILEFORMAT RCFile; MismatchedTokenException(220!=93) at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.recoverFromMismatchedToken(BaseRecognizer.java:617) at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.match(BaseRecognizer.java:115) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.alterStatementSuffixExchangePartition(HiveParser.java:12896) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.alterTableStatementSuffix(HiveParser.java:6744) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.alterStatement(HiveParser.java:6447) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.ddlStatement(HiveParser.java:2129) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.execStatement(HiveParser.java:1344) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:983) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:190) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:434) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:352) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:995) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1038) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:931) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:921) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:268) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:220) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:790) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:684) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:623) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) FAILED: ParseException line 1:48 mismatched input 'SET' expecting KW_EXCHANGE near 'bk_smp_advertiser_events_rcfile' in alter exchange partition hive> use dev; OK Time taken: 0.033 seconds hive> ALTER TABLE bk_smp_advertiser_events_rcfile SET FILEFORMAT RCFile; OK Time taken: 0.299 seconds hive> -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)