[HIVE-5085] Hive Metatool errors out if HIVE_OPTS is set

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan
• Reporter: Sushanth Sowmyan
• Created: 14/Aug/13 01:52
• Updated: 05/Mar/14 19:46
• Resolved: 18/Aug/13 19:33

Description

If HIVE_OPTS were to be set, then the Hive Metatool fails on parsing the commandline arguments. This can happen, for example, if HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH were to include the HCatalog jar.

The result, then, is that it tries to execute the following:

exec $HADOOP jar ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-cli-*.jar $CLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@"

which maps to:

exec /usr/lib/hadoop/bin/hadoop jar /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-cli-0.11.0.2.0.5.0-30.jar org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveMetaTool -hiveconf hive.aux.jars.path=file:///usr/lib/hcatalog/share/hcatalog/hcatalog-core.jar -listFSRoot

Then Metatool chokes on seeing the "-hiveconf" parameter.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-3056 Create a new metastore tool to bulk update location field in Db/Table/Partition records