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Grisha Trubetskoy updated HIVE-11427:
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    Description: 
If a user _does not_ have HDFS write permissions to the _default_ database, and 
attempts to create a table in a _private_ database to which the user _does_ 
have permissions using CREATE TABLE AS SELECT from a table in the default 
database, the following happens:
{code}
use default;
create table grisha.blahblah as select * from some_table;
FAILED: SemanticException 0:0 Error creating temporary folder on: 
hdfs://nn.example.com/user/hive/warehouse. Error encountered near token 
'TOK_TMP_FILE’
{code}

I've edited this issue because my initial explanation was completely bogus. A 
more likely explanation is in 
https://github.com/apache/hive/commit/1614314ef7bd0c3b8527ee32a434ababf7711278

{code}
 -                fname = ctx.getExternalTmpPath(
 +                fname = ctx.getExtTmpPathRelTo(  
    // and then something incorrect happens in getExtTmpPathRelTo()
{code}

In any event - the bug is that the location chosen for the temporary storage is 
not in the same place as the target table. It should be same as the target 
table (/user/hive/warehouse/grisha.db in the above example) because this is 
where presumably the user running the query would have write permissions to.

  was:
If a user _does not_ have HDFS write permissions to the _default_ database, and 
attempts to create a table in a _private_ database to which the user _does_ 
have permissions, the following happens:
{code}
create table grisha.blahblah as select * from some_table;
FAILED: SemanticException 0:0 Error creating temporary folder on: 
hdfs://nn.example.com/user/hive/warehouse. Error encountered near token 
'TOK_TMP_FILE’

I've edited this issue because my initial explanation was completely bogus. A 
more likely explanation is in 
https://github.com/apache/hive/commit/1614314ef7bd0c3b8527ee32a434ababf7711278
{code}
-                fname = ctx.getExternalTmpPath(
+                fname = ctx.getExtTmpPathRelTo(
{code}

In any event - the bug is that the location chosen for the temporary storage 
has to be in the same place as the target table because that is where 
presumably the user running the query would have write permissions to.


> Location of temporary table for CREATE TABLE  SELECT broken by HIVE-7079
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-11427
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-11427
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Grisha Trubetskoy
>
> If a user _does not_ have HDFS write permissions to the _default_ database, 
> and attempts to create a table in a _private_ database to which the user 
> _does_ have permissions using CREATE TABLE AS SELECT from a table in the 
> default database, the following happens:
> {code}
> use default;
> create table grisha.blahblah as select * from some_table;
> FAILED: SemanticException 0:0 Error creating temporary folder on: 
> hdfs://nn.example.com/user/hive/warehouse. Error encountered near token 
> 'TOK_TMP_FILE’
> {code}
> I've edited this issue because my initial explanation was completely bogus. A 
> more likely explanation is in 
> https://github.com/apache/hive/commit/1614314ef7bd0c3b8527ee32a434ababf7711278
> {code}
>  -                fname = ctx.getExternalTmpPath(
>  +                fname = ctx.getExtTmpPathRelTo(  
>     // and then something incorrect happens in getExtTmpPathRelTo()
> {code}
> In any event - the bug is that the location chosen for the temporary storage 
> is not in the same place as the target table. It should be same as the target 
> table (/user/hive/warehouse/grisha.db in the above example) because this is 
> where presumably the user running the query would have write permissions to.



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