On 18 Nov 2013, at 21:59, Stephen Sprague wrote: > A word of warning for users of HiveServer2 - version 0.11 at least. This > puppy has the ability crash and/or hang your server with a memory leak. > > Apparently its not new since googling shows this discussed before and i see > reference to a workaround here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Setting+up+HiveServer2 > > Anyhoo. Consider this a Public Service Announcement. Take heed. > > Regards, > Stephen.
When setting fs.hdfs.impl.disable.cache to false I have all my ALTER TABLE statements involving managed tables throw an Error 1 in Hive (nothing more). Can anyone confirm that behaviour? David