[HCATALOG-453] HCatalog queries fail due to exceeding max jobconf size

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2, 0.4, 0.5
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Assignee: Feng Peng
• Reporter: Feng Peng
• Created: 24/Jul/12 19:16
• Updated: 15/Feb/13 21:32
• Resolved: 10/Oct/12 23:27

Description

The following script fails because exceeding max jobconf size:

raw_data = LOAD 'db.table' using org.apache.hcatalog.pig.HCatLoader(); 
filtered_data = FILTER raw_data BY (part_dt>='20120528T000000Z') and (part_dt<='20120624T230000Z');
dump filtered_data;

Stacktrace:

2012-07-18 00:06:24,067 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 6017: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: Exceeded max jobconf size: 10523042 limit: 5242880
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.submitJob(JobTracker.java:3766)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor18.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:557)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1434)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1430)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1127)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1428)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Exceeded max jobconf size: 10523042 limit: 5242880
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.<init>(JobInProgress.java:406)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.submitJob(JobTracker.java:3764)
        ... 10 more

Issue Links

• duplicates: HCATALOG-142 Reducing JobConf size used by HCatInputFormat
• duplicates: HCATALOG-274 Bloated partition info with inputJobInfo needs to be addressed.