[HIVE-1321] bugs with temp directories, trailing blank fields in HBase bulk load

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: HBase Handler
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: John Sichi
• Reporter: John Sichi
• Created: 23/Apr/10 00:14
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:03
• Resolved: 27/Apr/10 00:13

Description

HIVE-1295 had two bugs discovered during testing with production data:

(1) extra directories may be present in the output directory depending on how the cluster is configured; we need to walk down these to find the column family directory

(2) if a record ends with fields which are blank strings, the text format omits the corresponding Control-A delimiters, so we need to fill in blanks for these fields (instead of throwing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException)

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-1295 facilitate HBase bulk loads from Hive