[HIVE-10630] Renaming tables across encryption zones renames table even though the operation throws error

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Pending Closed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.1, 1.3.0
• Component/s: Metastore, Security
• Assignee: Eugene Koifman
• Reporter: Deepesh Khandelwal
• Created: 06/May/15 18:20
• Updated: 22/May/15 00:41
• Resolved: 14/May/15 17:31

Description

Create a table with data in an encrypted zone 1 and then rename it to encrypted zone 2.

hive> alter table encdb1.testtbl rename to encdb2.testtbl;
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unable to alter table. Unable to access old location hdfs://node-1.example.com:8020/apps/hive/warehouse/encdb1.db/testtbl for table encdb1.testtbl

Even though the command errors out the table is renamed. I think the right behavior should be to not rename the table at all including the metadata.