Hi Naveen, Which client are you using? Beeline?
Thanks, Wei On 9/14/16, 18:25, "naveen mahadevuni" <nmahadev...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I'm using Hive 1,.2. From a non-ACID hive session, I performed the following operations and Hive reports 'serious problem'. CREATE TABLE test5( i int, j int) CLUSTERED BY (i) INTO 8 BUCKETS STORED AS ORC TBLPROPERTIES ('transactional'='true'); insert into test5 values(1,2); insert into test5 values(3,4); select * from test5; -- Fails reporting serious problem. *-->Failed with exception java.io.IOException:java.lang.RuntimeException: serious problem* Hive documents "Reading/writing to an ACID table from a non-ACID session is not allowed.". Can a better message be reported rather than 'serious problem'? Thanks, Naveen