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Posted to dev@hive.apache.org by Sohan Jain <so...@fb.com> on 2011/08/03 06:11:49 UTC

Review Request: HIVE-2338: Alter table always throws an unhelpful error on failure

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Review request for hive and Paul Yang.


Summary
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Every failure in an alter table function always return a MetaException. When altering tables and catching exceptions, we throw a MetaException in the "finally" part of a try-catch-finally block, which overrides any other exceptions thrown.

This patch moves the code to throw an error on a commit failure outside of the try-catch-finally block.  So any errors within the try block are thrown properly.  Only when success == false will we throw a MetaException.


This addresses bug HIVE-2338.
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2338


Diffs
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  trunk/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java 1152020 

Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/1276/diff


Testing
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Tested failing alter table metastore commands; they threw InvalidOperationExceptions as they should, instead of meaningless MetaExceptions.


Thanks,

Sohan


Re: Review Request: HIVE-2338: Alter table always throws an unhelpful error on failure

Posted by Sohan Jain <so...@fb.com>.
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(Updated 2011-08-03 23:59:06.774216)


Review request for hive and Paul Yang.


Changes
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-remove unecessary comment


Summary
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Every failure in an alter table function always return a MetaException. When altering tables and catching exceptions, we throw a MetaException in the "finally" part of a try-catch-finally block, which overrides any other exceptions thrown.

This patch moves the code to throw an error on a commit failure outside of the try-catch-finally block.  So any errors within the try block are thrown properly.  Only when success == false will we throw a MetaException.


This addresses bug HIVE-2338.
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2338


Diffs (updated)
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  trunk/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java 1152020 

Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/1276/diff


Testing
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Tested failing alter table metastore commands; they threw InvalidOperationExceptions as they should, instead of meaningless MetaExceptions.


Thanks,

Sohan