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Thejas M Nair commented on HIVE-8287:
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The patch also has changes so that errors in Hive.getTable and Hive.getDatabase
that are not a 'object does not exist' exception, get handled correctly.
> Metadata action errors don't have information about cause
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>
> Key: HIVE-8287
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8287
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Authorization, Logging
> Reporter: Thejas M Nair
> Assignee: Thejas M Nair
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.14.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-8287.1.patch, HIVE-8287.2.patch, HIVE-8287.3.patch
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> Example of error message that doesn't given enough useful information -
> {noformat}
> 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> alter table parttab1 drop partition
> (p1='def');
> Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code
> 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unknown error. Please check
> logs. (state=08S01,code=1)
> {noformat}
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