[DRILL-1276] Issuing "SHOW Tables" in hive.default throws an exception

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bridget Bevens
• Created: 08/Aug/14 18:33
• Updated: 19/Aug/14 00:18
• Resolved: 19/Aug/14 00:18

Description

Issuing "SHOW Tables" in hive.default results the following exception:
>
> Query failed: Failure while running fragment.
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetInputFormat
> [aceb5ec8-0168-4c63-ac81-fa8fad9aed1d]
>
> Error: exception while executing query: Failure while trying to get next
> result batch. (state=,code=0)
>

Update documentation to provide workaround for the issue:
Parquet serde in Hive 0.12 is not native, you must be having a downloaded
parquet serde in Hive lib or in Hive classpath. Drill is not able to find
that class in its classpath, so throwing the exception. However for some
reason the error message got truncated (it is missing the classnotfound
exception part). To resolve this copy the parquet serde to Drill lib folder.