[HIVE-15206] Add a validation functionality to hiveSchemaTool

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Aihua Xu
• Reporter: Aihua Xu
• Created: 15/Nov/16 15:12
• Updated: 15/Nov/16 15:12

Description

We have seen issues that the metastore get corrupted and cause the whole hiveserver not running.

Add the support to detect such corruption to hiveSchemaTool. Fixing the issue automatically could be risky, so may still defer to the admin.

Sub-Tasks

• Remove unused 'COLUMNS' table from derby schema: Patch Available
• Check if the console message from the hive schema tool needs to print to logging file: Open