my hive version hive-cdh5.4.0
follower this step, the exception throw
# hive
CREATE TABLE test1 (name string) PARTITIONED BY (pt string);
ALTER TABLE test1 ADD PARTITION (pt='1');
ALTER TABLE test1 CHANGE name name1 string;
ALTER TABLE test1 CHANGE name name1 string cascade;
then throw exception,
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unable to alter table.
java.lang.RuntimeException: commitTransaction was called but
openTransactionCalls = 0. This probably indicates that there are unbalanced
calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction
metasotre log
MetaException(message:java.lang.RuntimeException: commitTransaction was called
but openTransactionCalls = 0. This probably indicates that there are unbalanced
calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.newMetaException(HiveMetaStore.java:5257)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:3338)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_with_cascade(HiveMetaStore.java:3290)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source) at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:102)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy5.alter_table_with_cascade(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_table_with_cascade.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9131)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_table_with_cascade.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9115)
at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:110)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:106)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) at
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor.process(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:118)
at
org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:285)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by:
java.lang.RuntimeException: commitTransaction was called but
openTransactionCalls = 0. This probably indicates that there are unbalanced
calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.commitTransaction(ObjectStore.java:448)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source) at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:98)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.commitTransaction(Unknown Source) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveAlterHandler.alterTable(HiveAlterHandler.java:242)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:3318)
... 19 more
I debug the code, may this function "private void
updatePartColumnStatsForAlterColumns" wrong.some transaction rollback, but I
don't known the exact error.
