[HIVE-17472] Drop-partition for multi-level partition fails, if data does not exist.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0, 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.1, 2.3.2, 2.4.0, 3.0.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Chris Drome
• Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
• Created: 06/Sep/17 23:25
• Updated: 22/May/18 23:15
• Resolved: 21/Sep/17 18:15

Description

Raising this on behalf of cdrome and selinazh.

Here's how to reproduce the problem:

CREATE TABLE foobar ( foo STRING, bar STRING ) PARTITIONED BY ( dt STRING, region STRING ) STORED AS RCFILE LOCATION '/tmp/foobar';

ALTER TABLE foobar ADD PARTITION ( dt='1', region='A' ) ;

dfs -rm -R -skipTrash /tmp/foobar/dt=1;

ALTER TABLE foobar DROP PARTITION ( dt='1' );

This causes a client-side error as follows:

15/02/26 23:08:32 ERROR exec.DDLTask: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Unknown error. Please check logs.