[HIVE-22209] Creating a materialized view with no tables should be handled more gracefully

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Materialized views
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Steve Carlin
• Reporter: Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
• Created: 16/Sep/19 22:39
• Updated: 27/Feb/24 22:23
• Resolved: 30/Sep/19 19:34

Description

Currently, materialized views without a table reference are not supported. However, instead of printing a clear message about it, when a materialized view is created without a table reference, we fail with an unclear message.

> create materialized view mv_test1 as select 5;
(...)
ERROR : FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:Add request failed :
INSERT INTO MV_TABLES_USED (MV_CREATION_METADATA_ID,TBL_ID) VALUES (?,?) )
INFO : Completed executing command(queryId=hive_20190916203511_b609cccf-f5e3-45dd-abfd-6e869d94e39a); Time taken: 10.469 seconds
Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaExcep
tion(message:Add request failed : INSERT INTO MV_TABLES_USED (MV_CREATION_METADATA_ID,TBL_ID) VALUES (?,?) ) (state=08S01,code=1)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #782