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Szehon Ho updated HIVE-10206: ----------------------------- Component/s: (was: File Formats) Serializers/Deserializers Priority: Minor (was: Major) Issue Type: Improvement (was: Bug) Summary: Improve Alter Table to not initialize Serde unnecessarily (was: Cannot modify Avro table properties if existing properties are invalid) Changing the name to reflect the fact that its fixed in 1.2.0 and what the patch would do. > Improve Alter Table to not initialize Serde unnecessarily > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-10206 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10206 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Serializers/Deserializers > Affects Versions: 1.1.0 > Reporter: Szehon Ho > Assignee: Ferdinand Xu > Priority: Minor > > Create an avro table with an external avsc file like: > {noformat} > CREATE TABLE 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:///Users/szehon/Temp/test.avsc', > 'kite.compression.type'='snappy', > 'transient_lastDdlTime'='1427996456') > {noformat} > Delete test.avsc file. > Try to modify the table properties: > {noformat} > alter table test set tblproperties > ('avro.schema.url'='file:///Users/szehon/Temp/test2.avsc'); > {noformat} > Will throw an exception like AvroSerdeException: > {noformat} > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerdeUtils.determineSchemaOrThrowException(AvroSerdeUtils.java:119) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe.determineSchemaOrReturnErrorSchema(AvroSerDe.java:163) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe.initialize(AvroSerDe.java:101) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe.initialize(AvroSerDe.java:78) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeUtils.initializeSerDe(SerDeUtils.java:520) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.getDeserializer(MetaStoreUtils.java:377) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getDeserializerFromMetaStore(Table.java:274) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getDeserializer(Table.java:256) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getCols(Table.java:595) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.alterTableOrSinglePartition(DDLTask.java:3383) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.alterTable(DDLTask.java:3340) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:332) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:160) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:88) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1638) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1397) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1181) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1047) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1037) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:207) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:159) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:370) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:754) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:615) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-1) > 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.run(RunJar.java:221) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136) > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)