[jira] [Created] (HIVE-18882) Do Not Hide Exception in Hive Metastore Client Connection

["BELUGA BEHR (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

BELUGA BEHR created HIVE-18882:
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             Summary: Do Not Hide Exception in Hive Metastore Client Connection
                 Key: HIVE-18882
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18882
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Standalone Metastore
    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
            Reporter: BELUGA BEHR


[https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/4047befe48c8f762c58d8854e058385c1df151c6/standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveMetaStoreClient.java#L526-L531]

 
{code:java}
if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
  LOG.warn("Failed to connect to the MetaStore Server...", e);
} else {
  // Don't print full exception trace if DEBUG is not on.
  LOG.warn("Failed to connect to the MetaStore Server...");
}
{code}

I do not understand the logic here.  I always want to see the reason for the failure. Otherwise, I do not know why it is failing unless I restart the server with debug logging enabled.  By that point, the error may have cleared.  Please just use the Exception in the WARN output without adding confusing logging for debugging.  This is never an expected behavior... that enabling debug would change a _warn_ level log message.

Also... please remove the ellipsis, they add no value. 



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