[HCATALOG-301] Reading from a table created with upper case table name throws error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.1
• Component/s: hbase
• Assignee: Rohini Palaniswamy
• Reporter: David Capwell
• Created: 08/Mar/12 21:59
• Updated: 29/Mar/12 18:30
• Resolved: 29/Mar/12 18:30

Description

if you create a new table then try to read from it, you will get the exception below. Ether the error should propagate up and be clear what happened (no data to read) or the job should run with empty input (fail fast imo).

ERROR 18:29:05,057 [main] Launcher:171 - Backend error message during job
submission
org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2118:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error while configuring job properties
at
org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigInputFormat.getSplits(PigInputFormat.java:280)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.writeNewSplits(JobClient.java:962)
[...]
Caused by: org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NoNodeException:
KeeperErrorCode = NoNode for
/revision-management/data/hcatreadhbasetabletest_85330477246989847.hcatreadhbasetabletest_85330477285774847
at
org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:111)
at org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:51)
at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.getChildren(ZooKeeper.java:1448)
at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.getChildren(ZooKeeper.java:1476)
at
org.apache.hcatalog.hbase.snapshot.ZKUtil.getColumnFamiliesOfTable(ZKUtil.java:130)
... 25 more