from the JIRA comments it looks like there is a miss match between your hive and HMS. Did you upgrade hive recently?
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Mahesh Sankaran <sankarmahes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any thoughts regarding this problem?? > > Mahesh > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Mahesh Sankaran < > sankarmahes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am using hive-1.1.0 and hadoop-2.6.0. >> >> am trying to rename a existing table in hive but it shows following error. >> >> hive> *altertable testrename rename to testrenamebkp ;* >> *FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unable to alter table. Invalid >> method name: 'alter_table_with_cascade'.* >> >> *From this error i followed this jira,* >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10552 >> >> to connect hive with beeline but stills it shows the same error. >> >> HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/opt/hadoop-2.6.0/etc/hadoop >> YARN_CONF_DIR=/opt/hadoop-2.6.0/etc/hadoop /opt/hive/bin/beeline -u >> jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000 username password >> org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver >> Connected to: Apache Hive (version 1.1.0) >> Driver: Hive JDBC (version 1.1.0) >> Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ >> Beeline version 1.1.0 by Apache Hive >> 0: jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000> *altertable testrename rename to >> testrenamebkp ;* >> *FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unable to alter table. Invalid >> method name: 'alter_table_with_cascade'* >> >> Thanks >> Mahesh.S >> > >
