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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-10722: --------------------------------------- Doc note: *hive.msck.path.validation* needs to be documented in Configuration Properties. Should it go in the query & DDL execution section or the metastore section? * [Configuration Properties -- Query and DDL Execution | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Configuration+Properties#ConfigurationProperties-QueryandDDLExecution] * [Configuration Properties -- MetaStore | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Configuration+Properties#ConfigurationProperties-MetaStore] Where does usage information belong? * [LanguageManual -- DML | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DML] * [LanguageManual -- DDL -- Recover Partitions (MSCK REPAIR TABLE) | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-RecoverPartitions(MSCKREPAIRTABLE)] > external table creation with msck in Hive can create unusable partition > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-10722 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10722 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.14.1, 1.0.0 > Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin > Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin > Priority: Critical > Labels: TODOC1.3 > Fix For: 1.3.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-10722.01.patch, HIVE-10722.patch > > > There can be directories in HDFS containing unprintable characters; when > doing hadoop fs -ls, these characters are not even visible, and can only be > seen for example if output is piped thru od. > When these are loaded via msck, they are stored in e.g. mysql as "?" (literal > question mark, findable via LIKE '%?%' in db) and show accordingly in Hive. > However, datanucleus appears to encode it as %3F; this causes the partition > to be unusable - it cannot be dropped, and other operations like drop table > get stuck (didn't investigate in detail why; drop table got unstuck as soon > as the partition was removed from metastore). > We should probably have a 2-way option for such cases - error out on load > (default), or convert to '?'/drop such characters (and have partition that > actually works, too). > We should also check if partitions with '?' inserted explicitly work at all > with datanucleus. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)