Hi Dean, At this stage I'm really not worried about this being a hack. I just want to get it to work, and I'm grateful for all your help. I did as you suggested and now, as far as I can see, the Map/Reduce has succeeded. When I look in the log for the last reduce I no longer find an error. However this is the output from the hive command session:
MapReduce Total cumulative CPU time: 0 days 1 hours 14 minutes 51 seconds 360 msec Ended Job = job_201211021743_0001 Loading data to table default.default__score_bigindex__ Deleted hdfs://localhost/data/warehouse/default__score_bigindex__ Invalid alter operation: Unable to alter index. Table default.default__score_bigindex__ stats: [num_partitions: 0, num_files: 138, num_rows: 0, total_size: 446609024, raw_data_size: 0] FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask MapReduce Jobs Launched: Job 0: Map: 511 Reduce: 138 Accumulative CPU: 4491.36 sec HDFS Read: 137123460712 HDFS Write: 446609024 SUCESS Total MapReduce CPU Time Spent: 0 days 1 hours 14 minutes 51 seconds 360 msec hive> I find this very confusing. We have the bit where it says "Job 0:.... SUCCESS" and this seems to fit with the fact that I can't find errors in the Map/Reduce. On the other hand we have the bit where it says: "Invalid alter operation: Unable to alter index." So has it successfully created the index or not? And if not, then what do I do next? Is there somewhere else where it records Hive errors as opposed to Map/Reduce errors? Regards, Peter Marron From: Dean Wampler [mailto:dean.wamp...@thinkbiganalytics.com] Sent: 02 November 2012 14:03 To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Creating Indexes Oh, I saw this line in your Hive output and just assumed you were running in a cluster: Hadoop job information for Stage-1: number of mappers: 511; number of reducers: 138 I haven't tried running a job that big in pseudodistributed mode either, but that's beside the point. So it seems to be an issue with indexing, but it still begs the question why derby isn't on the classpath for the task. I would try using the ADD JAR command, which copies the jar around the "cluster" and puts it on the classpath. It's what you would use with UDFs, for example: ADD JAR /path/to/derby.jar ALTER INDEX ...; It's a huge hack, but it just might work. dean On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Peter Marron <peter.mar...@trilliumsoftware.com<mailto:peter.mar...@trilliumsoftware.com>> wrote: Hi Dean, I'm running everything on a single physical machine in pseudo-distributed mode. Well it certainly looks like the reducer is looking for a derby.jar, although I must confess I don't really understand why it would be doing that. In an effort to fix that I copied the derby.jar (derby-10.4.2.0.jar) into the Hadoop directory, where I assume that the reducer would be able to find it. However I get exactly the same problem as before. Is there some particular place that I should put the derby.jar to make this problem go away? Is there anything else that I can try? Peter Marron From: Dean Wampler [mailto:dean.wamp...@thinkbiganalytics.com<mailto:dean.wamp...@thinkbiganalytics.com>] Sent: 01 November 2012 13:02 To: user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org> Subject: Re: Creating Indexes It looks like you're using Derby with a real cluster, not just a single machine in local or pseudo-distributed mode. I haven't tried this myself, but the derby jar is probably not on the machine that ran the reducer task that failed. dean On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Peter Marron <peter.mar...@trilliumsoftware.com<mailto:peter.mar...@trilliumsoftware.com>> wrote: Hi Shreepadma, I agree that the error looks odd. However I can't believe that I would have got this far with Hive if there was no derby jar. Nevertheless I checked. Here is a directory listing of the Hive install: [snip] -- Dean Wampler, Ph.D. thinkbiganalytics.com<http://thinkbiganalytics.com> +1-312-339-1330
