[jira] [Updated] (HIVE-10722) external table creation with msck in Hive can create unusable partition

["Andrew Olson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10722?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andrew Olson updated HIVE-10722:
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    Component/s: Metastore

> external table creation with msck in Hive can create unusable partition
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>                 Key: HIVE-10722
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10722
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Metastore
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.1, 1.0.0
>            Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
>            Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
>            Priority: Critical
>              Labels: TODOC1.3
>             Fix For: 1.3.0, 2.0.0
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>         Attachments: HIVE-10722.01.patch, HIVE-10722.patch
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> There can be directories in HDFS containing unprintable characters; when doing hadoop fs -ls, these characters are not even visible, and can only be seen for example if output is piped thru od.
> When these are loaded via msck, they are stored in e.g. mysql as "?" (literal question mark, findable via LIKE '%?%' in db) and show accordingly in Hive.
> However, datanucleus appears to encode it as %3F; this causes the partition to be unusable - it cannot be dropped, and other operations like drop table get stuck (didn't investigate in detail why; drop table got unstuck as soon as the partition was removed from metastore).
> We should probably have a 2-way option for such cases - error out on load (default), or convert to '?'/drop such characters (and have partition that actually works, too).
> We should also check if partitions with '?' inserted explicitly work at all with datanucleus.



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