[HIVE-1129] Fix Assertion in ExecDriver.execute when assertions are enabled in HADOOP_OPTS

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: John Sichi
• Reporter: John Sichi
• Created: 03/Feb/10 20:22
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:03
• Resolved: 06/Feb/10 00:18

Description

I noticed that when running hive CLI, assertions are not enabled, which was causing me some confusion when debugging an issue.

So, I added the following to my environment:

export HADOOP_OPTS="-ea -esa"

This worked, and allowed me to see assertion failures when executing via CLI.

But then I tried to run a test, and got an assertion failure from the following code in ExecDriver.execute:

// Turn on speculative execution for reducers
HiveConf.setVar(job, HiveConf.ConfVars.HADOOPSPECULATIVEEXECREDUCERS,
HiveConf.getVar(job, HiveConf.ConfVars.HIVESPECULATIVEEXECREDUCERS));

The assertion says it should be using getBoolVar/setBoolVar instead.