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Jason Dere commented on HIVE-8287:
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+1 assuming unit tests pass.
> 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}
> Some calls to get database and get table from metastore also treat all
> exceptions as an 'object does not exist' exception, and end up ignoring the
> errors.
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