[HIVE-4996] unbalanced calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Labels: hive metastore

Environment

hiveserver1 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01, mixed mode)

• Tags: hive Metastore
• Assignee: Szehon Ho
• Reporter: wangfeng
• Created: 05/Aug/13 03:53
• Updated: 20/Nov/14 21:52
• Resolved: 12/Feb/14 19:20

Description

when we used hiveserver1 based on hive-0.10.0, we found the Exception thrown.It was:

FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:java.lang.RuntimeException: commitTransaction was called but openTransactionCalls = 0. This probably indicates that the
re are unbalanced calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction)
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

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Issue Links

• is broken by: HIVE-4807 Hive metastore hangs
• is duplicated by: HIVE-3272 RetryingRawStore will perform partial transaction on retry
• is related to: HIVE-8850 ObjectStore:: rollbackTransaction() needs to be looked into further.
• is related to: HIVE-5181 RetryingRawStore should not retry on logical failures (e.g. from commit)
• is related to: HIVE-1760 Mismatched open/commit transaction calls in case of connection retry
• links to: Review board