Alexander Behm created HIVE-5264: ------------------------------------ Summary: SQL generated by MetaStoreDirectSql.java not compliant with Postgres. Key: HIVE-5264 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5264 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Affects Versions: 0.11.0 Environment: Ubuntu 12.04 PostgreSQL 9.1.8 Reporter: Alexander Behm
Some operations against the Hive Metastore seem broken against Postgres. For example, when using HiveMetastoreClient.listPartitions() the Postgres logs show queries such as: 2013-09-09 19:10:01 PDT STATEMENT: select PARTITIONS.PART_ID from PARTITIONS inner join TBLS on PARTITIONS.TBL_ID = TBLS.TBL_ID inner join DBS on TBLS.DB_ID = DBS.DB_ID where TBLS.TBL_NAME = $1 and DBS.NAME = $2 order by PART_NAME asc with a somewhat cryptic (but correct) error: ERROR: relation "partitions" does not exist at character 32 Postgres identifiers are somewhat unusual. Unquoted identifiers are interpreted as lower case (there is no Postgres option to change this). Since the Metastore table schema uses upper case table names, the correct SQL requires escaped identifiers to those tables, i.e., select "PARTITIONS"."PART_ID" from "PARTITIONS"... Hive sets metastore.try.direct.sql=true by default, so the above SQL is generated by hive/metastore/MetaStoreDirectSql.java, i.e., this is not a Datanucleus problem. When I set metastore.try.direct.sql=false, then the Metastore backed by Postgres works. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira