Hello Hive Devs, I posted my email below in the users mailing list but realized I should probably send it here.
I made some changes to a local Hive repo based on the latest master branch. But somehow I got the following error when running a "CREATE TABLE" statement in Hive shell: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(message:Insert of object "org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.model.MSerDeInfo@ace2408" using statement "INSERT INTO SERDES (SERDE_ID,DESCRIPTION,DESERIALIZER_CLASS,"NAME",SERDE_TYPE,SLIB,SERIALIZER_CLASS) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)" failed : 'DESCRIPTION' is not a column in table or VTI 'APP.SERDES'.) FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:Insert of object "org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.model.MSerDeInfo@ace2408" using statement "INSERT INTO SERDES (SERDE_ID,DESCRIPTION,DESERIALIZER_CLASS,"NAME",SERDE_TYPE,SLIB,SERIALIZER_CLASS) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)" failed : 'DESCRIPTION' is not a column in table or VTI 'APP.SERDES'.) No matter what table name or schema I create, I got the same error. I remember testing my changes about three weeks ago using the master branch back then, everything was working. It only started failing today after I merged the latest commits in master. Looking at the Travis CI build history, the build for master started failing since about 21 days ago. Is anyone aware of recent commits that might break this write code path? And do we know when the next release of Hive is coming out? Thank you, Chaoran Yu
