[jira] [Work logged] (HIVE-25221) Hive Beeline & CLI: execute alter table comamnd With Error: Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist

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ASF GitHub Bot logged work on HIVE-25221:
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                Author: ASF GitHub Bot
            Created on: 10/Jun/21 02:14
            Start Date: 10/Jun/21 02:14
    Worklog Time Spent: 10m 
      Work Description: honeyaya commented on pull request #2374:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/2374#issuecomment-858226467


   cc @szehon-ho @sunchao 
   Could you help to review this? Thanks! 


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> Hive Beeline & CLI: execute alter table comamnd With Error: Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist
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>                 Key: HIVE-25221
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-25221
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Beeline, CLI
>    Affects Versions: 2.3.7, 2.3.8
>            Reporter: XixiHua
>            Assignee: XixiHua
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 2.3.9
>
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Use Hive Beeline and CLI to execute the following command:
>  
> {code:java}
> alter table xxx.xxx partition(xxx) set location 'xxx';{code}
>  
> If don't execute +*use <schema>*+ first, there will fail with the error: 
>  Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unable to alter partition. Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist. even if the table does exist.
> and more info:
> {code:java}
> 2021-06-08T07:37:21,596 ERROR [pool-6-thread-173] metastore.RetryingHMSHandler: InvalidOperationException(message:Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist.)2021-06-08T07:37:21,596 ERROR [pool-6-thread-173] metastore.RetryingHMSHandler: InvalidOperationException(message:Unable to alter partitions because table or database does not exist.) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_partitions_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStore.java:3908) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor100.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invokeInternal(RetryingHMSHandler.java:148) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:107) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy27.alter_partitions_with_environment_context(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_partitions_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:12598) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_partitions_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:12582) 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$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:106) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1698) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor.process(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:118) at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:286) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
> {code}
> but when execute add/drop partition, don't need to follow this mode.
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