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Prabhu Joseph commented on HIVE-8863: ------------------------------------- Hi Juan, The issue got reproduced in my machine with hive 0.12 version. I am using Derby for metastore in server mode. Earlier when i drop the table i recieved different exception. drop table Test; The error i got is Caused by: MetaException(message:java.lang.RuntimeException: commitTransaction was called but openTransactionCalls = 0. This probably indicates that there are unbalanced calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction) After applying HIVE-4996 patch, receiving same exception you have reported. drop table Test; NestedThrowablesStackTrace: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: DELETE on table 'TBLS' caused a violation of foreign key constraint 'TAB_COL_STATS_FK1' for key (19). But with or without applying patch, drop table test; [ small 't'] works. There is some issue. > Cannot drop table with uppercase name after "compute statistics for columns" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-8863 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8863 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Juan Yu > > Create a table with uppercase name Test, > run "analyze table Test compute statistics for columns col1" > After this, you cannot drop the table by > drop table Test; > Got error: > NestedThrowablesStackTrace: > java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Cannot delete or update a parent row: a > foreign key constraint fails ("hive2"."TAB_COL_STATS", CONSTRAINT > "TAB_COL_STATS_FK" FOREIGN KEY ("TBL_ID") REFERENCES "TBLS" ("TBL_ID")) > workaround is to use lowercase table name > drop table test; -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)