I've booked on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5858 for the ALTER TABLE issue, mentioned by David Morel (Thanks).
2013/11/20 David Morel <dmore...@gmail.com> > 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 >
