[SENTRY-92] Queries fail when hive.exec.scratchdir is not equal to hive.exec.local.scratchdir

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Shreepadma Venugopalan
• Reporter: Shreepadma Venugopalan
• Created: 16/Jan/14 19:27
• Updated: 21/Jan/14 07:09
• Resolved: 17/Jan/14 22:55

Description

When hive.exec.scratchdir is not set to the same path as hive.exec.local.scratchdir, some queries (those that do joins) fail. The problematic code is,

https://github.com/apache/incubator-sentry/blob/master/sentry-binding/sentry-binding-hive/src/main/java/org/apache/sentry/binding/hive/HiveAuthzBindingHook.java#L550