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@@ -38,22 +38,26 @@ under the License.
<conbody>
<p>
- The following sections describe known issues and workarounds in Impala, as of the current production release. This page summarizes the
- most serious or frequently encountered issues in the current release, to help you make planning decisions about installing and
- upgrading. Any workarounds are listed here. The bug links take you to the Impala issues site, where you can see the diagnosis and
- whether a fix is in the pipeline.
+ The following sections describe known issues and workarounds in Impala, as of the current
+ production release. This page summarizes the most serious or frequently encountered issues
+ in the current release, to help you make planning decisions about installing and
+ upgrading. Any workarounds are listed here. The bug links take you to the Impala issues
+ site, where you can see the diagnosis and whether a fix is in the pipeline.
</p>
<note>
- The online issue tracking system for Impala contains comprehensive information and is updated in real time. To verify whether an issue
- you are experiencing has already been reported, or which release an issue is fixed in, search on the
- <xref href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/" scope="external" format="html">issues.apache.org JIRA tracker</xref>.
+ The online issue tracking system for Impala contains comprehensive information and is
+ updated in real time. To verify whether an issue you are experiencing has already been
+ reported, or which release an issue is fixed in, search on the
+ <xref href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/" scope="external" format="html">issues.apache.org
+ JIRA tracker</xref>.
</note>
<p outputclass="toc inpage"/>
<p>
- For issues fixed in various Impala releases, see <xref href="impala_fixed_issues.xml#fixed_issues"/>.
+ For issues fixed in various Impala releases, see
+ <xref href="impala_fixed_issues.xml#fixed_issues"/>.
</p>
<!-- Use as a template for new issues.
@@ -73,62 +77,6 @@ under the License.
</conbody>
-<!-- New known issues for Impala 2.3.
-
-Title: Server-to-server SSL and Kerberos do not work together
-Description: If server<->server SSL is enabled (with ssl_client_ca_certificate), and Kerberos auth is used between servers, the cluster will fail to start.
-Upstream & Internal JIRAs: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2598
-Severity: Medium. Server-to-server SSL is practically unusable but this is a new feature.
-Workaround: No known workaround.
-
-Title: Queries may hang on server-to-server exchange errors
-Description: The DataStreamSender::Channel::CloseInternal() does not close the channel on an error. This will cause the node on the other side of the channel to wait indefinitely causing a hang.
-Upstream & Internal JIRAs: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2592
-Severity: Low. This does not occur frequently.
-Workaround: No known workaround.
-
-Title: Catalogd may crash when loading metadata for tables with many partitions, many columns and with incremental stats
-Description: Incremental stats use up about 400 bytes per partition X column. So for a table with 20K partitions and 100 columns this is about 800 MB. When serialized this goes past the 2 GB Java array size limit and leads to a catalog crash.
-Upstream & Internal JIRAs: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2648, IMPALA-2647, IMPALA-2649.
-Severity: Low. This does not occur frequently.
-Workaround: Reduce the number of partitions.
-
-More from the JIRA report of blocker/critical issues:
-
-IMPALA-2093
-Wrong plan of NOT IN aggregate subquery when a constant is used in subquery predicate
-IMPALA-1652
-Incorrect results with basic predicate on CHAR typed column.
-IMPALA-1459
-Incorrect assignment of predicates through an outer join in an inline view.
-IMPALA-2665
-Incorrect assignment of On-clause predicate inside inline view with an outer join.
-IMPALA-2603
-Crash: impala::Coordinator::ValidateCollectionSlots
-IMPALA-2375
-Fix issues with the legacy join and agg nodes using enable_partitioned_hash_join=false and enable_partitioned_aggregation=false
-IMPALA-1862
-Invalid bool value not reported as a scanner error
-IMPALA-1792
-ImpalaODBC: Can not get the value in the SQLGetData(m-x th column) after the SQLBindCol(m th column)
-IMPALA-1578
-Impala incorrectly handles text data when the new line character \n\r is split between different HDFS block
-IMPALA-2643
-Duplicated column in inline view causes dropping null slots during scan
-IMPALA-2005
-A failed CTAS does not drop the table if the insert fails.
-IMPALA-1821
-Casting scenarios with invalid/inconsistent results
-
-Another list from Alex, of correctness problems with predicates; might overlap with ones I already have:
-
-https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2665 - Already have
-https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2643 - Already have
-https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-1459 - Already have
-https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
-
--->
-
<concept id="known_issues_startup">
<title>Impala Known Issues: Startup</title>
@@ -136,42 +84,60 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues can prevent one or more Impala-related daemons
- from starting properly.
+ These issues can prevent one or more Impala-related daemons from starting properly.
</p>
</conbody>
<concept id="IMPALA-4978">
+
<title id="IMPALA-5253">Problem retrieving FQDN causes startup problem on kerberized clusters</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
The method Impala uses to retrieve the host name while constructing the Kerberos
- principal is the <codeph>gethostname()</codeph> system call. This function might
- not always return the fully qualified domain name, depending on the network
- configuration. If the daemons cannot determine the FQDN, Impala does not start
- on a kerberized cluster.
+ principal is the <codeph>gethostname()</codeph> system call. This function might not
+ always return the fully qualified domain name, depending on the network configuration.
+ If the daemons cannot determine the FQDN, Impala does not start on a kerberized
+ cluster.
</p>
+
<p>
This problem might occur immediately after an upgrade of a CDH cluster, due to changes
- in Cloudera Manager that supplies the <codeph>--hostname</codeph> flag automatically to
- the Impala-related daemons. (See the issue <q>hostname parameter is not passed to Impala catalog role</q>
- at <xref href="https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/release-notes/topics/cm_rn_known_issues.html" scope="external" format="html">the Cloudera Manager Known Issues page</xref>.)
+ in Cloudera Manager that supplies the <codeph>--hostname</codeph> flag automatically
+ to the Impala-related daemons. (See the issue <q>hostname parameter is not passed to
+ Impala catalog role</q> at
+ <xref href="https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/release-notes/topics/cm_rn_known_issues.html" scope="external" format="html">the
+ Cloudera Manager Known Issues page</xref>.)
</p>
- <p><b>Bugs:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4978">IMPALA-4978</xref>, <xref keyref="IMPALA-5253">IMPALA-5253</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> The issue is expected to occur less frequently on systems
- with fixes for <xref keyref="IMPALA-4978">IMPALA-4978</xref>, <xref keyref="IMPALA-5253">IMPALA-5253</xref>,
- or both. Even on systems with fixes for both of these issues, the workaround might still
- be required in some cases.
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bugs:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4978">IMPALA-4978</xref>,
+ <xref keyref="IMPALA-5253">IMPALA-5253</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Test if a host is affected by checking whether the output of the
- <cmdname>hostname</cmdname> command includes the FQDN. On hosts where <cmdname>hostname</cmdname>
- only returns the short name, pass the command-line flag
- <codeph>--hostname=<varname>fully_qualified_domain_name</varname></codeph>
- in the startup options of all Impala-related daemons.
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> The issue is expected to occur less frequently on systems with
+ fixes for <xref keyref="IMPALA-4978">IMPALA-4978</xref>,
+ <xref keyref="IMPALA-5253">IMPALA-5253</xref>, or both. Even on systems with fixes for
+ both of these issues, the workaround might still be required in some cases.
</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Test if a host is affected by checking whether the output of the
+ <cmdname>hostname</cmdname> command includes the FQDN. On hosts where
+ <cmdname>hostname</cmdname> only returns the short name, pass the command-line flag
+ <codeph>--hostname=<varname>fully_qualified_domain_name</varname></codeph> in the
+ startup options of all Impala-related daemons.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
</concept>
@@ -188,23 +154,100 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
</conbody>
+ <concept id="impala-6841">
+
+ <title>Unable to view large catalog objects in catalogd Web UI</title>
+
+ <conbody>
+
+ <p>
+ In <codeph>catalogd</codeph> Web UI, you can list metadata objects and view their
+ details. These details are accessed via a link and printed to a string formatted using
+ thrift's <codeph>DebugProtocol</codeph>. Printing large objects (> 1 GB) in Web UI can
+ crash <codeph>catalogd</codeph>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-6841">IMPALA-6841</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ </conbody>
+
+ </concept>
+
+ <concept id="impala-6389">
+
+ <title><b>Crash when querying tables with "\0" as a row delimiter</b></title>
+
+ <conbody>
+
+ <p>
+ When querying a textfile-based Impala table that uses <codeph>\0</codeph> as a new
+ line separator, Impala crashes.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ The following sequence causes <codeph>impalad</codeph> to crash:
+ </p>
+
+<pre>create table tab_separated(id bigint, s string, n int, t timestamp, b boolean)
+ row format delimited
+ fields terminated by '\t' escaped by '\\' lines terminated by '\000'
+ stored as textfile;
+select * from tab_separated; -- Done. 0 results.
+insert into tab_separated (id, s) values (100, ''); -- Success.
+select * from tab_separated; -- 20 second delay before getting "Cancelled due to unreachable impalad(s): xxxx:22000"</pre>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b>
+ <xref keyref="IMPALA-6389" scope="external" format="html"
+ >IMPALA-6389</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Use an alternative delimiter, e.g. <codeph>\001</codeph>.
+ </p>
+
+ </conbody>
+
+ </concept>
+
<concept id="IMPALA-4828">
+
<title>Altering Kudu table schema outside of Impala may result in crash on read</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- Creating a table in Impala, changing the column schema outside of Impala,
- and then reading again in Impala may result in a crash. Neither Impala nor
- the Kudu client validates the schema immediately before reading, so Impala may attempt to
- dereference pointers that aren't there. This happens if a string column is dropped
- and then a new, non-string column is added with the old string column's name.
+ Creating a table in Impala, changing the column schema outside of Impala, and then
+ reading again in Impala may result in a crash. Neither Impala nor the Kudu client
+ validates the schema immediately before reading, so Impala may attempt to dereference
+ pointers that aren't there. This happens if a string column is dropped and then a new,
+ non-string column is added with the old string column's name.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4828" scope="external" format="html">IMPALA-4828</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Run the statement <codeph>REFRESH <varname>table_name</varname></codeph>
- after any occasion when the table structure, such as the number, names, and data types
- of columns, are modified outside of Impala using the Kudu API.
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b>
+ <xref keyref="IMPALA-4828" scope="external" format="html">IMPALA-4828</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala290"/>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Run the statement <codeph>REFRESH
+ <varname>table_name</varname></codeph> after any occasion when the table structure,
+ such as the number, names, and data types of columns, are modified outside of Impala
+ using the Kudu API.
</p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-1972" rev="IMPALA-1972">
@@ -214,10 +257,9 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- Trying to get the details of a query through the debug web page
- while the query is planning will block new queries that had not
- started when the web page was requested. The web UI becomes
- unresponsive until the planning phase is finished.
+ Trying to get the details of a query through the debug web page while the query is
+ planning will block new queries that had not started when the web page was requested.
+ The web UI becomes unresponsive until the planning phase is finished.
</p>
<p>
@@ -228,22 +270,44 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<b>Severity:</b> High
</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala290"/>.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-4595">
+
<title>Linking IR UDF module to main module crashes Impala</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- A UDF compiled as an LLVM module (<codeph>.ll</codeph>) could cause a crash
- when executed.
+ A UDF compiled as an LLVM module (<codeph>.ll</codeph>) could cause a crash when
+ executed.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4595">IMPALA-4595</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala28_full"/> and higher.</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Compile the external UDFs to a <codeph>.so</codeph> library instead of a
- <codeph>.ll</codeph> IR module.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4595">IMPALA-4595</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala28_full"/> and higher.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Compile the external UDFs to a <codeph>.so</codeph> library instead
+ of a <codeph>.ll</codeph> IR module.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-3069" rev="IMPALA-3069">
@@ -253,8 +317,9 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- Using a value in the millions for the <codeph>BATCH_SIZE</codeph> query option, together with wide rows or large string values in
- columns, could cause a memory allocation of more than 2 GB resulting in a crash.
+ Using a value in the millions for the <codeph>BATCH_SIZE</codeph> query option,
+ together with wide rows or large string values in columns, could cause a memory
+ allocation of more than 2 GB resulting in a crash.
</p>
<p>
@@ -265,7 +330,9 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<b>Severity:</b> High
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala270"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala270"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -278,7 +345,8 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- Malformed Avro data, such as out-of-bounds integers or values in the wrong format, could cause a crash when queried.
+ Malformed Avro data, such as out-of-bounds integers or values in the wrong format,
+ could cause a crash when queried.
</p>
<p>
@@ -289,7 +357,10 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<b>Severity:</b> High
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala270"/> and <keyword keyref="impala262"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala270"/> and
+ <keyword keyref="impala262"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -302,8 +373,9 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- The <codeph>DataStreamSender::Channel::CloseInternal()</codeph> does not close the channel on an error. This causes the node on
- the other side of the channel to wait indefinitely, causing a hang.
+ The <codeph>DataStreamSender::Channel::CloseInternal()</codeph> does not close the
+ channel on an error. This causes the node on the other side of the channel to wait
+ indefinitely, causing a hang.
</p>
<p>
@@ -325,15 +397,18 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- If the JAR file corresponding to a Java UDF is removed from HDFS after the Impala <codeph>CREATE FUNCTION</codeph> statement is
- issued, the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemon crashes.
+ If the JAR file corresponding to a Java UDF is removed from HDFS after the Impala
+ <codeph>CREATE FUNCTION</codeph> statement is issued, the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname>
+ daemon crashes.
</p>
<p>
<b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-2365">IMPALA-2365</xref>
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -353,30 +428,94 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
</conbody>
+ <concept id="impala-6671">
+
+ <title>Metadata operations block read-only operations on unrelated tables</title>
+
+ <conbody>
+
+ <p>
+ Metadata operations that change the state of a table, like <codeph>COMPUTE
+ STATS</codeph> or <codeph>ALTER RECOVER PARTITIONS</codeph>, may delay metadata
+ propagation of unrelated unloaded tables triggered by statements like
+ <codeph>DESCRIBE</codeph> or <codeph>SELECT</codeph> queries.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-6671">IMPALA-6671</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ </conbody>
+
+ </concept>
+
+ <concept id="impala-5200">
+
+ <title>Profile timers not updated during long-running sort</title>
+
+ <conbody>
+
+ <p>
+ If you have a query plan with a long-running sort operation, e.g. minutes, the profile
+ timers are not updated to reflect the time spent in the sort until the sort starts
+ returning rows.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-5200">IMPALA-5200</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Slow sorts can be identified by looking at "Peak Mem" in the
+ summary or "PeakMemoryUsage" in the profile. If a sort is consuming multiple GB of
+ memory per host, it will likely spend a significant amount of time sorting the data.
+ </p>
+
+ </conbody>
+
+ </concept>
+
<concept id="IMPALA-3316">
+
<title>Slow queries for Parquet tables with convert_legacy_hive_parquet_utc_timestamps=true</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- The configuration setting <codeph>convert_legacy_hive_parquet_utc_timestamps=true</codeph>
- uses an underlying function that can be a bottleneck on high volume, highly concurrent
- queries due to the use of a global lock while loading time zone information. This bottleneck
- can cause slowness when querying Parquet tables, up to 30x for scan-heavy queries. The amount
- of slowdown depends on factors such as the number of cores and number of threads involved in the query.
+ The configuration setting
+ <codeph>convert_legacy_hive_parquet_utc_timestamps=true</codeph> uses an underlying
+ function that can be a bottleneck on high volume, highly concurrent queries due to the
+ use of a global lock while loading time zone information. This bottleneck can cause
+ slowness when querying Parquet tables, up to 30x for scan-heavy queries. The amount of
+ slowdown depends on factors such as the number of cores and number of threads involved
+ in the query.
</p>
+
<note>
<p>
- The slowdown only occurs when accessing <codeph>TIMESTAMP</codeph> columns within Parquet files that
- were generated by Hive, and therefore require the on-the-fly timezone conversion processing.
+ The slowdown only occurs when accessing <codeph>TIMESTAMP</codeph> columns within
+ Parquet files that were generated by Hive, and therefore require the on-the-fly
+ timezone conversion processing.
</p>
</note>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-3316">IMPALA-3316</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> If the <codeph>TIMESTAMP</codeph> values stored in the table represent dates only,
- with no time portion, consider storing them as strings in <codeph>yyyy-MM-dd</codeph> format.
- Impala implicitly converts such string values to <codeph>TIMESTAMP</codeph> in calls to date/time
- functions.
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-3316">IMPALA-3316</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> If the <codeph>TIMESTAMP</codeph> values stored in the table
+ represent dates only, with no time portion, consider storing them as strings in
+ <codeph>yyyy-MM-dd</codeph> format. Impala implicitly converts such string values to
+ <codeph>TIMESTAMP</codeph> in calls to date/time functions.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-1480" rev="IMPALA-1480">
@@ -399,31 +538,37 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<b>Workaround:</b> Run the DDL statement in Hive if the slowness is an issue.
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
</concept>
<concept id="ki_file_handle_cache">
+
<title>Interaction of File Handle Cache with HDFS Appends and Short-Circuit Reads</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- If a data file used by Impala is being continuously appended or
- overwritten in place by an HDFS mechanism, such as <cmdname>hdfs dfs
- -appendToFile</cmdname>, interaction with the file handle caching
- feature in <keyword keyref="impala210_full"/> and higher could cause
- short-circuit reads to sometimes be disabled on some DataNodes. When a
- mismatch is detected between the cached file handle and a data block
- that was rewritten because of an append, short-circuit reads are
- turned off on the affected host for a 10-minute period.
+ If a data file used by Impala is being continuously appended or overwritten in place
+ by an HDFS mechanism, such as <cmdname>hdfs dfs -appendToFile</cmdname>, interaction
+ with the file handle caching feature in <keyword keyref="impala210_full"/> and higher
+ could cause short-circuit reads to sometimes be disabled on some DataNodes. When a
+ mismatch is detected between the cached file handle and a data block that was
+ rewritten because of an append, short-circuit reads are turned off on the affected
+ host for a 10-minute period.
</p>
+
<p>
- The possibility of encountering such an issue is the reason why the
- file handle caching feature is currently turned off by default. See
- <xref keyref="scalability_file_handle_cache"/> for information about
- this feature and how to enable it.
+ The possibility of encountering such an issue is the reason why the file handle
+ caching feature is currently turned off by default. See
+ <xref keyref="scalability_file_handle_cache"/> for information about this feature and
+ how to enable it.
</p>
+
<p>
<b>Bug:</b>
<xref href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-12528"
@@ -434,31 +579,29 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<b>Severity:</b> High
</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Verify whether your ETL process is susceptible to
- this issue before enabling the file handle caching feature. You can
- set the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> configuration option
- <codeph>unused_file_handle_timeout_sec</codeph> to a time period
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Verify whether your ETL process is susceptible to this issue before
+ enabling the file handle caching feature. You can set the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname>
+ configuration option <codeph>unused_file_handle_timeout_sec</codeph> to a time period
that is shorter than the HDFS setting
- <codeph>dfs.client.read.shortcircuit.streams.cache.expiry.ms</codeph>.
- (Keep in mind that the HDFS setting is in milliseconds while the
- Impala setting is in seconds.)
+ <codeph>dfs.client.read.shortcircuit.streams.cache.expiry.ms</codeph>. (Keep in mind
+ that the HDFS setting is in milliseconds while the Impala setting is in seconds.)
</p>
<p>
- <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in HDFS 2.10 and higher. Use the new HDFS
- parameter <codeph>dfs.domain.socket.disable.interval.seconds</codeph>
- to specify the amount of time that short circuit reads are disabled on
- encountering an error. The default value is 10 minutes
- (<codeph>600</codeph> seconds). It is recommended that you set
- <codeph>dfs.domain.socket.disable.interval.seconds</codeph> to a
- small value, such as <codeph>1</codeph> second, when using the file
- handle cache. Setting <codeph>
- dfs.domain.socket.disable.interval.seconds</codeph> to
- <codeph>0</codeph> is not recommended as a non-zero interval
- protects the system if there is a persistent problem with short
- circuit reads.
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in HDFS 2.10 and higher. Use the new HDFS parameter
+ <codeph>dfs.domain.socket.disable.interval.seconds</codeph> to specify the amount of
+ time that short circuit reads are disabled on encountering an error. The default value
+ is 10 minutes (<codeph>600</codeph> seconds). It is recommended that you set
+ <codeph>dfs.domain.socket.disable.interval.seconds</codeph> to a small value, such as
+ <codeph>1</codeph> second, when using the file handle cache. Setting <codeph>
+ dfs.domain.socket.disable.interval.seconds</codeph> to <codeph>0</codeph> is not
+ recommended as a non-zero interval protects the system if there is a persistent
+ problem with short circuit reads.
</p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
</concept>
@@ -470,24 +613,41 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues affect the convenience of interacting directly with Impala, typically through the Impala shell or Hue.
+ These issues affect the convenience of interacting directly with Impala, typically
+ through the Impala shell or Hue.
</p>
</conbody>
<concept id="IMPALA-4570">
+
<title>Impala shell tarball is not usable on systems with setuptools versions where '0.7' is a substring of the full version string</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
For example, this issue could occur on a system using setuptools version 20.7.0.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4570">IMPALA-4570</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala28_full"/> and higher.</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Change to a setuptools version that does not have <codeph>0.7</codeph> as
- a substring.
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4570">IMPALA-4570</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala28_full"/> and higher.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Change to a setuptools version that does not have
+ <codeph>0.7</codeph> as a substring.
</p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-3133" rev="IMPALA-3133">
@@ -497,9 +657,10 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- Due to a timing condition in updating cached policy data from Sentry, the <codeph>SHOW</codeph> statements for Sentry roles could
- sometimes display out-of-date role settings. Because Impala rechecks authorization for each SQL statement, this discrepancy does
- not represent a security issue for other statements.
+ Due to a timing condition in updating cached policy data from Sentry, the
+ <codeph>SHOW</codeph> statements for Sentry roles could sometimes display out-of-date
+ role settings. Because Impala rechecks authorization for each SQL statement, this
+ discrepancy does not represent a security issue for other statements.
</p>
<p>
@@ -511,11 +672,10 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
</p>
<p>
- <b>Resolution:</b> Fixes have been issued for some but not all Impala releases. Check the JIRA for details of fix releases.
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala260"/> and
+ <keyword keyref="impala251"/>.
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala260"/> and <keyword keyref="impala251"/>.</p>
-
</conbody>
</concept>
@@ -527,7 +687,8 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- Simple <codeph>SELECT</codeph> queries show less than 100% progress even though they are already completed.
+ Simple <codeph>SELECT</codeph> queries show less than 100% progress even though they
+ are already completed.
</p>
<p>
@@ -547,8 +708,11 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<p conref="../shared/impala_common.xml#common/int_overflow_behavior" />
<p>
- <b>Bug:</b>
- <xref keyref="IMPALA-3123">IMPALA-3123</xref>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-3123">IMPALA-3123</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala260"/>.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -564,8 +728,8 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues affect applications that use the JDBC or ODBC APIs, such as business intelligence tools or custom-written applications
- in languages such as Java or C++.
+ These issues affect applications that use the JDBC or ODBC APIs, such as business
+ intelligence tools or custom-written applications in languages such as Java or C++.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -579,8 +743,9 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- If the ODBC <codeph>SQLGetData</codeph> is called on a series of columns, the function calls must follow the same order as the
- columns. For example, if data is fetched from column 2 then column 1, the <codeph>SQLGetData</codeph> call for column 1 returns
+ If the ODBC <codeph>SQLGetData</codeph> is called on a series of columns, the function
+ calls must follow the same order as the columns. For example, if data is fetched from
+ column 2 then column 1, the <codeph>SQLGetData</codeph> call for column 1 returns
<codeph>NULL</codeph>.
</p>
@@ -605,31 +770,78 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues relate to security features, such as Kerberos authentication, Sentry authorization, encryption, auditing, and
- redaction.
+ These issues relate to security features, such as Kerberos authentication, Sentry
+ authorization, encryption, auditing, and redaction.
</p>
</conbody>
+ <concept id="impala-4712">
+
+ <title>Transient kerberos authentication error during table loading</title>
+
+ <conbody>
+
+ <p>
+ A transient Kerberos error can cause a table to get into a bad state with an error:
+ <codeph>Failed to load metadata for table</codeph>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4712">IMPALA-4712</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Resolve the Kerberos authentication problem and run
+ <codeph>INVALIDATE METADATA</codeph> on the affected table.
+ </p>
+
+ </conbody>
+
+ </concept>
+
<concept id="IMPALA-5638">
+
<title>Malicious user can gain unauthorized access to Kudu table data via Impala</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- A malicious user with <codeph>ALTER</codeph> permissions on an Impala table can access any
- other Kudu table data by altering the table properties to make it <q>external</q>
- and then changing the underlying table mapping to point to other Kudu tables.
- This violates and works around the authorization requirement that creating a
- Kudu external table via Impala requires an <codeph>ALL</codeph> privilege at the server scope.
- This privilege requirement for <codeph>CREATE</codeph> commands is enforced to precisely avoid
- this scenario where a malicious user can change the underlying Kudu table
- mapping. The fix is to enforce the same privilege requirement for <codeph>ALTER</codeph>
- commands that would make existing non-external Kudu tables external.
+ A malicious user with <codeph>ALTER</codeph> permissions on an Impala table can access
+ any other Kudu table data by altering the table properties to make it <q>external</q>
+ and then changing the underlying table mapping to point to other Kudu tables. This
+ violates and works around the authorization requirement that creating a Kudu external
+ table via Impala requires an <codeph>ALL</codeph> privilege at the server scope. This
+ privilege requirement for <codeph>CREATE</codeph> commands is enforced to precisely
+ avoid this scenario where a malicious user can change the underlying Kudu table
+ mapping. The fix is to enforce the same privilege requirement for
+ <codeph>ALTER</codeph> commands that would make existing non-external Kudu tables
+ external.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-5638">IMPALA-5638</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> A temporary workaround is to revoke <codeph>ALTER</codeph> permissions on Impala tables.</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Upgrade to an Impala version containing the fix for <xref keyref="IMPALA-5638">IMPALA-5638</xref>.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-5638">IMPALA-5638</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> A temporary workaround is to revoke <codeph>ALTER</codeph>
+ permissions on Impala tables.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala2100"/>.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="renewable_kerberos_tickets">
@@ -641,12 +853,13 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- In a Kerberos environment, the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemon might not start if Kerberos tickets are not renewable.
+ In a Kerberos environment, the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemon might not start if
+ Kerberos tickets are not renewable.
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> Configure your KDC to allow tickets to be renewed, and configure <filepath>krb5.conf</filepath> to request
- renewable tickets.
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Configure your KDC to allow tickets to be renewed, and configure
+ <filepath>krb5.conf</filepath> to request renewable tickets.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -685,22 +898,38 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
</concept>
-<!--
- <concept id="known_issues_supportability">
+ <concept id="impala-6726">
- <title id="ki_supportability">Impala Known Issues: Supportability</title>
+ <title>Catalog server's kerberos ticket gets deleted after 'ticket_lifetime' on SLES11</title>
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues affect the ability to debug and troubleshoot Impala, such as incorrect output in query profiles or the query state
- shown in monitoring applications.
+ On SLES11, after 'ticket_lifetime', the kerberos ticket gets deleted by the Java krb5
+ library.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-6726"/>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> On Impala 2.11.0, set <codeph>--use_kudu_kinit=false</codeph> in
+ Impala startup flag.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ On Impala 2.12.0, set <codeph>--use_kudu_kinit=false</codeph> and
+ <codeph>--use_krpc=false</codeph> in Impala startup flags.
</p>
</conbody>
</concept>
--->
<concept id="known_issues_resources">
@@ -709,92 +938,156 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2144 - Don't have
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues involve memory or disk usage, including out-of-memory conditions, the spill-to-disk feature, and resource management
- features.
+ These issues involve memory or disk usage, including out-of-memory conditions, the
+ spill-to-disk feature, and resource management features.
</p>
</conbody>
<concept id="IMPALA-5605">
+
<title>Configuration to prevent crashes caused by thread resource limits</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- Impala could encounter a serious error due to resource usage under very high concurrency.
- The error message is similar to:
+ Impala could encounter a serious error due to resource usage under very high
+ concurrency. The error message is similar to:
</p>
+
<codeblock><![CDATA[
F0629 08:20:02.956413 29088 llvm-codegen.cc:111] LLVM hit fatal error: Unable to allocate section memory!
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<boost::thread_resource_error> >'
]]>
</codeblock>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-5605">IMPALA-5605</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b>
- To prevent such errors, configure each host running an <cmdname>impalad</cmdname>
- daemon with the following settings:
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-5605">IMPALA-5605</xref>
</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> To prevent such errors, configure each host running an
+ <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemon with the following settings:
+ </p>
+
<codeblock>
echo 2000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
echo 2000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
echo 8000000 > /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count
</codeblock>
+
<p>
- Add the following lines in <filepath>/etc/security/limits.conf</filepath>:
+ Add the following lines in <filepath>/etc/security/limits.conf</filepath>:
</p>
+
<codeblock>
impala soft nproc 262144
impala hard nproc 262144
</codeblock>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="flatbuffers_mem_usage">
+
<title>Memory usage when compact_catalog_topic flag enabled</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- The efficiency improvement from <xref keyref="IMPALA-4029">IMPALA-4029</xref>
- can cause an increase in size of the updates to Impala catalog metadata
- that are broadcast to the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemons
- by the <cmdname>statestored</cmdname> daemon.
- The increase in catalog update topic size results in higher CPU and network
+ The efficiency improvement from <xref keyref="IMPALA-4029">IMPALA-4029</xref> can
+ cause an increase in size of the updates to Impala catalog metadata that are broadcast
+ to the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemons by the <cmdname>statestored</cmdname>
+ daemon. The increase in catalog update topic size results in higher CPU and network
utilization. By default, the increase in topic size is about 5-7%. If the
- <codeph>compact_catalog_topic</codeph> flag is used, the
- size increase is more substantial, with a topic size approximately twice as
- large as in previous versions.
+ <codeph>compact_catalog_topic</codeph> flag is used, the size increase is more
+ substantial, with a topic size approximately twice as large as in previous versions.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-5500">IMPALA-5500</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> Medium</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-5500">IMPALA-5500</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> Medium
+ </p>
+
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> Consider setting the
- <codeph>compact_catalog_topic</codeph> configuration setting to
- <codeph>false</codeph> until this issue is resolved. </p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala210"/>.</p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Consider setting the <codeph>compact_catalog_topic</codeph>
+ configuration setting to <codeph>false</codeph> until this issue is resolved.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala210"/>.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-2294">
+
<title>Kerberos initialization errors due to high memory usage</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p conref="../shared/impala_common.xml#common/vm_overcommit_memory_intro"/>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-2294">IMPALA-2294</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b></p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-2294">IMPALA-2294</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala211"/>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b>
+ </p>
+
<p conref="../shared/impala_common.xml#common/vm_overcommit_memory_start" conrefend="../shared/impala_common.xml#common/vm_overcommit_memory_end"/>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="drop_table_purge_s3a">
+
<title>DROP TABLE PURGE on S3A table may not delete externally written files</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- A <codeph>DROP TABLE PURGE</codeph> statement against an S3 table could leave the data files
- behind, if the table directory and the data files were created with a combination of
- <cmdname>hadoop fs</cmdname> and <cmdname>aws s3</cmdname> commands.
+ A <codeph>DROP TABLE PURGE</codeph> statement against an S3 table could leave the data
+ files behind, if the table directory and the data files were created with a
+ combination of <cmdname>hadoop fs</cmdname> and <cmdname>aws s3</cmdname> commands.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-3558">IMPALA-3558</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> The underlying issue with the S3A connector depends on the resolution of <xref href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13230" format="html" scope="external">HADOOP-13230</xref>.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-3558">IMPALA-3558</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> The underlying issue with the S3A connector depends on the
+ resolution of
+ <xref href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13230" format="html" scope="external">HADOOP-13230</xref>.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="catalogd_heap">
@@ -804,27 +1097,30 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<conbody>
<p>
- The default heap size for Impala <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> has changed in <keyword keyref="impala25_full"/> and higher:
+ The default heap size for Impala <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> has changed in
+ <keyword keyref="impala25_full"/> and higher:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
- Previously, by default <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> was using the JVM's default heap size, which is the smaller of 1/4th of the
- physical memory or 32 GB.
+ Previously, by default <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> was using the JVM's default
+ heap size, which is the smaller of 1/4th of the physical memory or 32 GB.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- Starting with <keyword keyref="impala250"/>, the default <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> heap size is 4 GB.
+ Starting with <keyword keyref="impala250"/>, the default
+ <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> heap size is 4 GB.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
- For example, on a host with 128GB physical memory this will result in catalogd heap decreasing from 32GB to 4GB. This can result
- in out-of-memory errors in catalogd and leading to query failures.
+ For example, on a host with 128GB physical memory this will result in catalogd heap
+ decreasing from 32GB to 4GB. This can result in out-of-memory errors in catalogd and
+ leading to query failures.
</p>
<p>
@@ -833,9 +1129,6 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<p>
<b>Workaround:</b> Increase the <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> memory limit as follows.
-<!-- See <xref href="impala_scalability.xml#scalability_catalog"/> for the procedure. -->
-<!-- Including full details here via conref, for benefit of PDF readers or anyone else
- who might have trouble seeing or following the link. -->
</p>
<p conref="../shared/impala_common.xml#common/increase_catalogd_heap_size"/>
@@ -851,8 +1144,9 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<conbody>
<p>
- The size of the breakpad minidump files grows linearly with the number of threads. By default, each thread adds 8 KB to the
- minidump size. Minidump files could consume significant disk space when the daemons have a high number of threads.
+ The size of the breakpad minidump files grows linearly with the number of threads. By
+ default, each thread adds 8 KB to the minidump size. Minidump files could consume
+ significant disk space when the daemons have a high number of threads.
</p>
<p>
@@ -864,11 +1158,13 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> Add <codeph>--minidump_size_limit_hint_kb=<varname>size</varname></codeph> to set a soft upper limit on the
- size of each minidump file. If the minidump file would exceed that limit, Impala reduces the amount of information for each thread
- from 8 KB to 2 KB. (Full thread information is captured for the first 20 threads, then 2 KB per thread after that.) The minidump
- file can still grow larger than the <q>hinted</q> size. For example, if you have 10,000 threads, the minidump file can be more
- than 20 MB.
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Add
+ <codeph>--minidump_size_limit_hint_kb=<varname>size</varname></codeph> to set a soft
+ upper limit on the size of each minidump file. If the minidump file would exceed that
+ limit, Impala reduces the amount of information for each thread from 8 KB to 2 KB.
+ (Full thread information is captured for the first 20 threads, then 2 KB per thread
+ after that.) The minidump file can still grow larger than the <q>hinted</q> size. For
+ example, if you have 10,000 threads, the minidump file can be more than 20 MB.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -882,14 +1178,16 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<conbody>
<p>
- The initial release of <keyword keyref="impala26_full"/> sometimes has a higher peak memory usage than in previous releases while reading
- Parquet files.
+ The initial release of <keyword keyref="impala26_full"/> sometimes has a higher peak
+ memory usage than in previous releases while reading Parquet files.
</p>
<p>
- <keyword keyref="impala26_full"/> addresses the issue IMPALA-2736, which improves the efficiency of Parquet scans by up to 2x. The faster scans
- may result in a higher peak memory consumption compared to earlier versions of Impala due to the new column-wise row
- materialization strategy. You are likely to experience higher memory consumption in any of the following scenarios:
+ <keyword keyref="impala26_full"/> addresses the issue IMPALA-2736, which improves the
+ efficiency of Parquet scans by up to 2x. The faster scans may result in a higher peak
+ memory consumption compared to earlier versions of Impala due to the new column-wise
+ row materialization strategy. You are likely to experience higher memory consumption
+ in any of the following scenarios:
<ul>
<li>
<p>
@@ -899,14 +1197,15 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<li>
<p>
- Very large rows due to big column values, for example, long strings or nested collections with many items.
+ Very large rows due to big column values, for example, long strings or nested
+ collections with many items.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- Producer/consumer speed imbalances, leading to more rows being buffered between a scan (producer) and downstream (consumer)
- plan nodes.
+ Producer/consumer speed imbalances, leading to more rows being buffered between
+ a scan (producer) and downstream (consumer) plan nodes.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -921,10 +1220,16 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> The following query options might help to reduce memory consumption in the Parquet scanner:
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala280"/>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> The following query options might help to reduce memory consumption
+ in the Parquet scanner:
<ul>
<li>
- Reduce the number of scanner threads, for example: <codeph>set num_scanner_threads=30</codeph>
+ Reduce the number of scanner threads, for example: <codeph>set
+ num_scanner_threads=30</codeph>
</li>
<li>
@@ -950,8 +1255,8 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<conbody>
<p>
- Some memory allocated by the JVM used internally by Impala is not counted against the memory limit for the
- <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemon.
+ Some memory allocated by the JVM used internally by Impala is not counted against the
+ memory limit for the <cmdname>impalad</cmdname> daemon.
</p>
<p>
@@ -959,8 +1264,9 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> To monitor overall memory usage, use the <cmdname>top</cmdname> command, or add the memory figures in the
- Impala web UI <uicontrol>/memz</uicontrol> tab to JVM memory usage shown on the <uicontrol>/metrics</uicontrol> tab.
+ <b>Workaround:</b> To monitor overall memory usage, use the <cmdname>top</cmdname>
+ command, or add the memory figures in the Impala web UI <uicontrol>/memz</uicontrol>
+ tab to JVM memory usage shown on the <uicontrol>/metrics</uicontrol> tab.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -982,10 +1288,13 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> Transition away from the <q>old-style</q> join and aggregation mechanism if practical.
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Transition away from the <q>old-style</q> join and aggregation
+ mechanism if practical.
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1000,88 +1309,145 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues can cause incorrect or unexpected results from queries. They typically only arise in very specific circumstances.
+ These issues can cause incorrect or unexpected results from queries. They typically only
+ arise in very specific circumstances.
</p>
</conbody>
<concept id="IMPALA-4539">
+
<title>Parquet scanner memory bug: I/O buffer is attached to output batch while scratch batch rows still reference it</title>
+
<!-- TSB-225 title: Possibly incorrect results when scanning uncompressed Parquet files with Impala. -->
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- Impala queries may return incorrect results when scanning plain-encoded string
- columns in uncompressed Parquet files. I/O buffers holding the string data are
- prematurely freed, leading to invalid memory reads and possibly
- non-deterministic results. This does not affect Parquet files that use a
- compression codec such as Snappy. Snappy is both strongly recommended generally
- and the default choice for Impala-written Parquet files.
+ Impala queries may return incorrect results when scanning plain-encoded string columns
+ in uncompressed Parquet files. I/O buffers holding the string data are prematurely
+ freed, leading to invalid memory reads and possibly non-deterministic results. This
+ does not affect Parquet files that use a compression codec such as Snappy. Snappy is
+ both strongly recommended generally and the default choice for Impala-written Parquet
+ files.
</p>
+
<p>
How to determine whether a query might be affected:
</p>
+
<ul>
<li>
The query must reference <codeph>STRING</codeph> columns from a Parquet table.
</li>
+
<li>
A selective filter on the Parquet table makes this issue more likely.
</li>
+
<li>
- Identify any uncompressed Parquet files processed by the query.
- Examine the <codeph>HDFS_SCAN_NODE</codeph> portion of a query profile that scans the
- suspected table. Use a query that performs a full table scan, and materializes the column
- values. (For example, <codeph>SELECT MIN(<varname>colname</varname>) FROM <varname>tablename</varname></codeph>.)
- Look for <q>File Formats</q>. A value containing <codeph>PARQUET/NONE</codeph> means uncompressed Parquet.
+ Identify any uncompressed Parquet files processed by the query. Examine the
+ <codeph>HDFS_SCAN_NODE</codeph> portion of a query profile that scans the suspected
+ table. Use a query that performs a full table scan, and materializes the column
+ values. (For example, <codeph>SELECT MIN(<varname>colname</varname>) FROM
+ <varname>tablename</varname></codeph>.) Look for <q>File Formats</q>. A value
+ containing <codeph>PARQUET/NONE</codeph> means uncompressed Parquet.
</li>
+
<li>
- Identify any plain-encoded string columns in the associated table. Pay special attention to tables
- containing Parquet files generated through Hive, Spark, or other mechanisms outside of Impala,
- because Impala uses Snappy compression by default for Parquet files. Use <codeph>parquet-tools</codeph>
- to dump the file metadata. Note that a column could have several encodings within the same file (the column
- data is stored in several column chunks). Look for <codeph>VLE:PLAIN</codeph> in the output of
- <codeph>parquet-tools</codeph>, which means the values are plain encoded.
+ Identify any plain-encoded string columns in the associated table. Pay special
+ attention to tables containing Parquet files generated through Hive, Spark, or other
+ mechanisms outside of Impala, because Impala uses Snappy compression by default for
+ Parquet files. Use <codeph>parquet-tools</codeph> to dump the file metadata. Note
+ that a column could have several encodings within the same file (the column data is
+ stored in several column chunks). Look for <codeph>VLE:PLAIN</codeph> in the output
+ of <codeph>parquet-tools</codeph>, which means the values are plain encoded.
</li>
</ul>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4539">IMPALA-4539</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Upgrade to a version of Impala containing the fix for <xref keyref="IMPALA-4539">IMPALA-4539</xref>.</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Use Snappy or another compression codec for Parquet files.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4539">IMPALA-4539</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala280"/>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Use Snappy or another compression codec for Parquet files.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-4513">
+
<title>ABS(n) where n is the lowest bound for the int types returns negative values</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- If the <codeph>abs()</codeph> function evaluates a number that is right at the lower bound for
- an integer data type, the positive result cannot be represented in the same type, and the
- result is returned as a negative number. For example, <codeph>abs(-128)</codeph> returns -128
- because the argument is interpreted as a <codeph>TINYINT</codeph> and the return value is also
- a <codeph>TINYINT</codeph>.
+ If the <codeph>abs()</codeph> function evaluates a number that is right at the lower
+ bound for an integer data type, the positive result cannot be represented in the same
+ type, and the result is returned as a negative number. For example,
+ <codeph>abs(-128)</codeph> returns -128 because the argument is interpreted as a
+ <codeph>TINYINT</codeph> and the return value is also a <codeph>TINYINT</codeph>.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4513">IMPALA-4513</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Cast the integer value to a larger type. For example, rewrite
- <codeph>abs(<varname>tinyint_col</varname>)</codeph> as <codeph>abs(cast(<varname>tinyint_col</varname> as smallint))</codeph>.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4513">IMPALA-4513</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Cast the integer value to a larger type. For example, rewrite
+ <codeph>abs(<varname>tinyint_col</varname>)</codeph> as
+ <codeph>abs(cast(<varname>tinyint_col</varname> as smallint))</codeph>.
+ </p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-4266">
+
<title>Java udf expression returning string in group by can give incorrect results.</title>
+
<conbody>
+
<p>
- If the <codeph>GROUP BY</codeph> clause included a call to a Java UDF that returned a string value,
- the UDF could return an incorrect result.
+ If the <codeph>GROUP BY</codeph> clause included a call to a Java UDF that returned a
+ string value, the UDF could return an incorrect result.
</p>
- <p><b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4266">IMPALA-4266</xref></p>
- <p><b>Severity:</b> High</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala28_full"/> and higher.</p>
- <p><b>Workaround:</b> Rewrite the expression to concatenate the results of the Java UDF with an
- empty string call. For example, rewrite <codeph>my_hive_udf()</codeph> as
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-4266">IMPALA-4266</xref>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Severity:</b> High
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala28_full"/> and higher.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Rewrite the expression to concatenate the results of the Java UDF
+ with an empty string call. For example, rewrite <codeph>my_hive_udf()</codeph> as
<codeph>concat(my_hive_udf(), '')</codeph>.
</p>
+
</conbody>
+
</concept>
<concept id="IMPALA-3084" rev="IMPALA-3084">
@@ -1091,8 +1457,9 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<conbody>
<p>
- A query could return wrong results (too many or too few <codeph>NULL</codeph> values) if it referenced an outer-joined nested
- collection and also contained a null-checking predicate (<codeph>IS NULL</codeph>, <codeph>IS NOT NULL</codeph>, or the
+ A query could return wrong results (too many or too few <codeph>NULL</codeph> values)
+ if it referenced an outer-joined nested collection and also contained a null-checking
+ predicate (<codeph>IS NULL</codeph>, <codeph>IS NOT NULL</codeph>, or the
<codeph><=></codeph> operator) in the <codeph>WHERE</codeph> clause.
</p>
@@ -1104,7 +1471,9 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<b>Severity:</b> High
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala270"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala270"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1117,8 +1486,8 @@ impala hard nproc 262144
<conbody>
<p>
- An <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph> query could omit some expected result rows due to a constant such as <codeph>FALSE</codeph> in
- another join clause. For example:
+ An <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph> query could omit some expected result rows due to a
+ constant such as <codeph>FALSE</codeph> in another join clause. For example:
</p>
<codeblock><![CDATA[
@@ -1144,10 +1513,6 @@ explain SELECT 1 FROM alltypestiny a1
</p>
<p>
- <b>Resolution:</b>
- </p>
-
- <p>
<b>Workaround:</b>
</p>
@@ -1174,8 +1539,8 @@ explain SELECT 1 FROM alltypestiny a1
<li>
<p>
- The INNER JOIN has an On-clause with a predicate that references at least two tables that are on the nullable side of the
- preceding OUTER JOINs.
+ The INNER JOIN has an On-clause with a predicate that references at least two
+ tables that are on the nullable side of the preceding OUTER JOINs.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -1258,13 +1623,19 @@ on b.int_col = c.int_col;
</p>
<p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala280"/>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
<b>Workaround:</b> High
</p>
<p>
- For some queries, this problem can be worked around by placing the problematic <codeph>ON</codeph> clause predicate in the
- <codeph>WHERE</codeph> clause instead, or changing the preceding <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph>s to <codeph>INNER JOIN</codeph>s (if
- the <codeph>ON</codeph> clause predicate would discard <codeph>NULL</codeph>s). For example, to fix the problematic query above:
+ For some queries, this problem can be worked around by placing the problematic
+ <codeph>ON</codeph> clause predicate in the <codeph>WHERE</codeph> clause instead, or
+ changing the preceding <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph>s to <codeph>INNER JOIN</codeph>s
+ (if the <codeph>ON</codeph> clause predicate would discard <codeph>NULL</codeph>s).
+ For example, to fix the problematic query above:
</p>
<codeblock><![CDATA[
@@ -1340,7 +1711,8 @@ where b.int_col = c.int_col
<conbody>
<p>
- Parquet <codeph>BIT_PACKED</codeph> encoding as implemented by Impala is LSB first. The parquet standard says it is MSB first.
+ Parquet <codeph>BIT_PACKED</codeph> encoding as implemented by Impala is LSB first.
+ The parquet standard says it is MSB first.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1348,8 +1720,8 @@ where b.int_col = c.int_col
</p>
<p>
- <b>Severity:</b> High, but rare in practice because BIT_PACKED is infrequently used, is not written by Impala, and is deprecated
- in Parquet 2.0.
+ <b>Severity:</b> High, but rare in practice because BIT_PACKED is infrequently used,
+ is not written by Impala, and is deprecated in Parquet 2.0.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -1363,10 +1735,11 @@ where b.int_col = c.int_col
<conbody>
<p>
- The calculation of start and end times for the BST (British Summer Time) time zone could be incorrect between 1972 and 1995.
- Between 1972 and 1995, BST began and ended at 02:00 GMT on the third Sunday in March (or second Sunday when Easter fell on the
- third) and fourth Sunday in October. For example, both function calls should return 13, but actually return 12, in a query such
- as:
+ The calculation of start and end times for the BST (British Summer Time) time zone
+ could be incorrect between 1972 and 1995. Between 1972 and 1995, BST began and ended
+ at 02:00 GMT on the third Sunday in March (or second Sunday when Easter fell on the
+ third) and fourth Sunday in October. For example, both function calls should return
+ 13, but actually return 12, in a query such as:
</p>
<codeblock>
@@ -1394,15 +1767,18 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- If a URL contains an <codeph>@</codeph> character, the <codeph>parse_url()</codeph> function could return an incorrect value for
- the hostname field.
+ If a URL contains an <codeph>@</codeph> character, the <codeph>parse_url()</codeph>
+ function could return an incorrect value for the hostname field.
</p>
<p>
<b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-1170"></xref>IMPALA-1170
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/> and <keyword keyref="impala234"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/> and
+ <keyword keyref="impala234"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1415,8 +1791,9 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- If the final character in the RHS argument of a <codeph>LIKE</codeph> operator is an escaped <codeph>\%</codeph> character, it
- does not match a <codeph>%</codeph> final character of the LHS argument.
+ If the final character in the RHS argument of a <codeph>LIKE</codeph> operator is an
+ escaped <codeph>\%</codeph> character, it does not match a <codeph>%</codeph> final
+ character of the LHS argument.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1434,8 +1811,9 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- Because the value for <codeph>rand()</codeph> is computed early in a query, using an <codeph>ORDER BY</codeph> expression
- involving a call to <codeph>rand()</codeph> does not actually randomize the results.
+ Because the value for <codeph>rand()</codeph> is computed early in a query, using an
+ <codeph>ORDER BY</codeph> expression involving a call to <codeph>rand()</codeph> does
+ not actually randomize the results.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1453,8 +1831,9 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- If the same column is queried twice within a view, <codeph>NULL</codeph> values for that column are omitted. For example, the
- result of <codeph>COUNT(*)</codeph> on the view could be less than expected.
+ If the same column is queried twice within a view, <codeph>NULL</codeph> values for
+ that column are omitted. For example, the result of <codeph>COUNT(*)</codeph> on the
+ view could be less than expected.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1465,7 +1844,10 @@ select
<b>Workaround:</b> Avoid selecting the same column twice within an inline view.
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>, <keyword keyref="impala232"/>, and <keyword keyref="impala2210"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>,
+ <keyword keyref="impala232"/>, and <keyword keyref="impala2210"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1480,15 +1862,19 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- A query involving an <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph> clause where one of the table references is an inline view might apply predicates
- from the <codeph>ON</codeph> clause incorrectly.
+ A query involving an <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph> clause where one of the table
+ references is an inline view might apply predicates from the <codeph>ON</codeph>
+ clause incorrectly.
</p>
<p>
<b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-1459">IMPALA-1459</xref>
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>, <keyword keyref="impala232"/>, and <keyword keyref="impala229"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>,
+ <keyword keyref="impala232"/>, and <keyword keyref="impala229"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1501,8 +1887,8 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- A query could encounter a serious error if includes multiple nested levels of <codeph>INNER JOIN</codeph> clauses involving
- subqueries.
+ A query could encounter a serious error if includes multiple nested levels of
+ <codeph>INNER JOIN</codeph> clauses involving subqueries.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1520,7 +1906,8 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- A query might return incorrect results due to wrong predicate assignment in the following scenario:
+ A query might return incorrect results due to wrong predicate assignment in the
+ following scenario:
</p>
<ol>
@@ -1533,8 +1920,8 @@ select
</li>
<li>
- That join has an On-clause containing a predicate that only references columns originating from the outer-joined tables inside
- the inline view
+ That join has an On-clause containing a predicate that only references columns
+ originating from the outer-joined tables inside the inline view
</li>
</ol>
@@ -1542,7 +1929,10 @@ select
<b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-2665">IMPALA-2665</xref>
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>, <keyword keyref="impala232"/>, and <keyword keyref="impala229"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>,
+ <keyword keyref="impala232"/>, and <keyword keyref="impala229"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1555,15 +1945,18 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- In an <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph> query with a <codeph>HAVING</codeph> clause, the comparison from the <codeph>HAVING</codeph>
- clause might be applied at the wrong stage of query processing, leading to incorrect results.
+ In an <codeph>OUTER JOIN</codeph> query with a <codeph>HAVING</codeph> clause, the
+ comparison from the <codeph>HAVING</codeph> clause might be applied at the wrong stage
+ of query processing, leading to incorrect results.
</p>
<p>
<b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-2144">IMPALA-2144</xref>
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1576,15 +1969,18 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- A <codeph>NOT IN</codeph> operator with a subquery that calls an aggregate function, such as <codeph>NOT IN (SELECT
- SUM(...))</codeph>, could return incorrect results.
+ A <codeph>NOT IN</codeph> operator with a subquery that calls an aggregate function,
+ such as <codeph>NOT IN (SELECT SUM(...))</codeph>, could return incorrect results.
</p>
<p>
<b>Bug:</b> <xref keyref="IMPALA-2093">IMPALA-2093</xref>
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/> and <keyword keyref="impala234"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/> and
+ <keyword keyref="impala234"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1599,8 +1995,9 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues affect how Impala interacts with metadata. They cover areas such as the metastore database, the <codeph>COMPUTE
- STATS</codeph> statement, and the Impala <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> daemon.
+ These issues affect how Impala interacts with metadata. They cover areas such as the
+ metastore database, the <codeph>COMPUTE STATS</codeph> statement, and the Impala
+ <cmdname>catalogd</cmdname> daemon.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -1612,9 +2009,11 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- Incremental stats use up about 400 bytes per partition for each column. For example, for a table with 20K partitions and 100
- columns, the memory overhead from incremental statistics is about 800 MB. When serialized for transmission across the network,
- this metadata exceeds the 2 GB Java array size limit and leads to a <codeph>catalogd</codeph> crash.
+ Incremental stats use up about 400 bytes per partition for each column. For example,
+ for a table with 20K partitions and 100 columns, the memory overhead from incremental
+ statistics is about 800 MB. When serialized for transmission across the network, this
+ metadata exceeds the 2 GB Java array size limit and leads to a
+ <codeph>catalogd</codeph> crash.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1624,8 +2023,9 @@ select
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> If feasible, compute full stats periodically and avoid computing incremental stats for that table. The
- scalability of incremental stats computation is a continuing work item.
+ <b>Workaround:</b> If feasible, compute full stats periodically and avoid computing
+ incremental stats for that table. The scalability of incremental stats computation is
+ a continuing work item.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -1647,17 +2047,21 @@ select
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> On <keyword keyref="impala20"/>, when adjusting table statistics manually by setting the <codeph>numRows</codeph>, you must also
- enable the Boolean property <codeph>STATS_GENERATED_VIA_STATS_TASK</codeph>. For example, use a statement like the following to
- set both properties with a single <codeph>ALTER TABLE</codeph> statement:
+ <b>Workaround:</b> On <keyword keyref="impala20"/>, when adjusting table statistics
+ manually by setting the <codeph>numRows</codeph>, you must also enable the Boolean
+ property <codeph>STATS_GENERATED_VIA_STATS_TASK</codeph>. For example, use a statement
+ like the following to set both properties with a single <codeph>ALTER TABLE</codeph>
+ statement:
</p>
<codeblock>ALTER TABLE <varname>table_name</varname> SET TBLPROPERTIES('numRows'='<varname>new_value</varname>', 'STATS_GENERATED_VIA_STATS_TASK' = 'true');</codeblock>
<p>
<b>Resolution:</b> The underlying cause is the issue
- <xref href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8648" scope="external" format="html">HIVE-8648</xref> that affects the
- metastore in Hive 0.13. The workaround is only needed until the fix for this issue is incorporated into release of <keyword keyref="distro"/>.
+ <xref
+ href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8648"
+ scope="external" format="html">HIVE-8648</xref>
+ that affects the metastore in Hive 0.13.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -1673,8 +2077,8 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- These issues affect the ability to interchange data between Impala and other database systems. They cover areas such as data types
- and file formats.
+ These issues affect the ability to interchange data between Impala and other database
+ systems. They cover areas such as data types and file formats.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -1688,26 +2092,32 @@ select
<conbody>
<p>
- This issue can occur either on old Avro tables (created prior to Hive 1.1) or when changing the Avro schema file by
- adding or removing columns. Columns added to the schema file will not show up in the output of the <codeph>DESCRIBE
- FORMATTED</codeph> command. Removing columns from the schema file will trigger a <codeph>NullPointerException</codeph>.
+ This issue can occur either on old Avro tables (created prior to Hive 1.1) or when
+ changing the Avro schema file by adding or removing columns. Columns added to the
+ schema file will not show up in the output of the <codeph>DESCRIBE FORMATTED</codeph>
+ command. Removing columns from the schema file will trigger a
+ <codeph>NullPointerException</codeph>.
</p>
<p>
- As a workaround, you can use the output of <codeph>SHOW CREATE TABLE</codeph> to drop and recreate the table. This will populate
- the Hive metastore database with the correct column definitions.
+ As a workaround, you can use the output of <codeph>SHOW CREATE TABLE</codeph> to drop
+ and recreate the table. This will populate the Hive metastore database with the
+ correct column definitions.
</p>
<note type="warning">
- <p>Only use this for external tables, or Impala will remove the data
- files. In case of an internal table, set it to external first:
+ <p>
+ Only use this for external tables, or Impala will remove the data files. In case of
+ an internal table, set it to external first:
<codeblock>
ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
</codeblock>
- (The part in parentheses is case sensitive.) Make sure to pick the
- right choice between internal and external when recreating the table.
- See <xref href="impala_tables.xml#tables"/> for the differences
- between internal and external tables. </p></note>
+ (The part in parentheses is case sensitive.) Make sure to pick the right choice
+ between internal and external when recreating the table. See
+ <xref href="impala_tables.xml#tables"/> for the differences between internal and
+ external tables.
+ </p>
+ </note>
<p>
<b>Severity:</b> High
@@ -1746,8 +2156,8 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<conbody>
<p>
- Impala behavior differs from Hive with respect to out of range float/double values. Out of range values are returned as maximum
- allowed value of type (Hive returns NULL).
+ Impala behavior differs from Hive with respect to out of range float/double values.
+ Out of range values are returned as maximum allowed value of type (Hive returns NULL).
</p>
<p>
@@ -1767,14 +2177,16 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<conbody>
<p>
- For compatibility with Impala, the value for the Flume HDFS Sink <codeph>hdfs.writeFormat</codeph> must be set to
- <codeph>Text</codeph>, rather than its default value of <codeph>Writable</codeph>. The <codeph>hdfs.writeFormat</codeph> setting
- must be changed to <codeph>Text</codeph> before creating data files with Flume; otherwise, those files cannot be read by either
- Impala or Hive.
+ For compatibility with Impala, the value for the Flume HDFS Sink
+ <codeph>hdfs.writeFormat</codeph> must be set to <codeph>Text</codeph>, rather than
+ its default value of <codeph>Writable</codeph>. The <codeph>hdfs.writeFormat</codeph>
+ setting must be changed to <codeph>Text</codeph> before creating data files with
+ Flume; otherwise, those files cannot be read by either Impala or Hive.
</p>
<p>
- <b>Resolution:</b> This information has been requested to be added to the upstream Flume documentation.
+ <b>Resolution:</b> This information has been requested to be added to the upstream
+ Flume documentation.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -1790,7 +2202,8 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<conbody>
<p>
- Querying certain Avro tables could cause a crash or return no rows, even though Impala could <codeph>DESCRIBE</codeph> the table.
+ Querying certain Avro tables could cause a crash or return no rows, even though Impala
+ could <codeph>DESCRIBE</codeph> the table.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1798,13 +2211,14 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
</p>
<p>
- <b>Workaround:</b> Swap the order of the fields in the schema specification. For example, <codeph>["null", "string"]</codeph>
- instead of <codeph>["string", "null"]</codeph>.
+ <b>Workaround:</b> Swap the order of the fields in the schema specification. For
+ example, <codeph>["null", "string"]</codeph> instead of <codeph>["string",
+ "null"]</codeph>.
</p>
<p>
- <b>Resolution:</b> Not allowing this syntax agrees with the Avro specification, so it may still cause an error even when the
- crashing issue is resolved.
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Not allowing this syntax agrees with the Avro specification, so it
+ may still cause an error even when the crashing issue is resolved.
</p>
</conbody>
@@ -1820,7 +2234,8 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<conbody>
<p>
- If an Avro table has a schema definition with a trailing semicolon, Impala encounters an error when the table is queried.
+ If an Avro table has a schema definition with a trailing semicolon, Impala encounters
+ an error when the table is queried.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1844,8 +2259,9 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<conbody>
<p>
- Currently, Impala can only read gzipped files containing a single stream. If a gzipped file contains multiple concatenated
- streams, the Impala query only processes the data from the first stream.
+ Currently, Impala can only read gzipped files containing a single stream. If a gzipped
+ file contains multiple concatenated streams, the Impala query only processes the data
+ from the first stream.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1856,7 +2272,9 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<b>Workaround:</b> Use a different gzip tool to compress file to a single stream file.
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala250"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1871,8 +2289,9 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<conbody>
<p>
- If a carriage return / newline pair of characters in a text table is split between HDFS data blocks, Impala incorrectly processes
- the row following the <codeph>\n\r</codeph> pair twice.
+ If a carriage return / newline pair of characters in a text table is split between
+ HDFS data blocks, Impala incorrectly processes the row following the
+ <codeph>\n\r</codeph> pair twice.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1883,7 +2302,9 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<b>Workaround:</b> Use the Parquet format for large volumes of data where practical.
</p>
- <p><b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala260"/>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Resolution:</b> Fixed in <keyword keyref="impala260"/>.
+ </p>
</conbody>
@@ -1898,30 +2319,33 @@ ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
<conbody>
<p>
- In some cases, an invalid <codeph>BOOLEAN</codeph> value read from a table does not produce a warning message about the bad value.
- The result is still <codeph>NULL</codeph> as expected. Therefore, this is not a query correctness issue, but it could lead to
- overlooking the presence of in
<TRUNCATED>