Probably not telling you anything new here, but from the looks of it the CliDriver will rerun the same command if it catches this exception from any CommandProcessor. The Driver will throw this automatically if it is running a task that is marked as retry-able. Also looks like it will only do that in fat-client mode (no retries for HiveServer).
If you look at the Driver code there's some piece in there that seems to indicate that one reason for introducing this was to try a query locally and then retry it on the cluster if it fails. But I don't think the code to auto-convert a full query was ever enabled. My guess is that you would throw this in any task or command processor if there was a reasonable chance that another run would succeed (i.e.: network hiccup). This seems to be what FetchTask and ColumnStatsTask might be doing. Cheers, Gunther. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > No documentation here. Why should one throw it, and what does it mean to > the caller? >
