[HIVE-4251] Indices can't be built on tables whose schema info comes from SerDe

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.10.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Assignee: Mark Wagner
• Reporter: Mark Wagner
• Created: 29/Mar/13 00:05
• Updated: 15/Oct/13 23:31
• Resolved: 07/Jul/13 15:26

Description

Building indices on tables who get the schema information from the deserializer (e.g. Avro backed tables) doesn't work because when the column is checked to exist, the correct API isn't used.

hive> describe doctors;                                                                      
OK
# col_name            	data_type           	comment             
	 	 
number              	int                 	from deserializer   
first_name          	string              	from deserializer   
last_name           	string              	from deserializer   
Time taken: 0.215 seconds, Fetched: 5 row(s)
hive> create index doctors_index on table doctors(number) as 'compact' with deferred rebuild; 
FAILED: Error in metadata: java.lang.RuntimeException: Check the index columns, they should appear in the table being indexed.
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask