Alexander Behm created HIVE-6308: ------------------------------------ Summary: COLUMNS_V2 Metastore table not populated for tables created without an explicit column list. Key: HIVE-6308 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6308 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Database/Schema Affects Versions: 0.10.0 Reporter: Alexander Behm
Consider this example table: CREATE TABLE avro_test ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' STORED as INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' TBLPROPERTIES ( 'avro.schema.url'='file:///path/to/the/schema/test_serializer.avsc'); When I try to run an ANALYZE TABLE for computing column stats on any of the columns, then I get: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: NoSuchObjectException(message:Column o_orderpriority for which stats gathering is requested doesn't exist.) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.updateTableColumnStatistics(Hive.java:2280) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ColumnStatsTask.persistTableStats(ColumnStatsTask.java:331) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ColumnStatsTask.execute(ColumnStatsTask.java:343) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:66) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1383) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1169) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:982) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:902) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:759) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:613) 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:208) The root cause appears to be that the COLUMNS_V2 table in the Metastore isn't populated properly during the table creation. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)