[HIVE-5456] Queries fail on avro backed table with empty partition

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.0, 0.13.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Labels: Avro AvroSerde
• Assignee: Chaoyu Tang
• Reporter: Prasad Suresh Mujumdar
• Created: 05/Oct/13 16:17
• Updated: 06/Jul/15 19:49
• Resolved: 24/Jul/14 01:18

Description

The following query fails

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS episodes_partitioned;
CREATE TABLE episodes_partitioned
PARTITIONED BY (doctor_pt INT)
ROW FORMAT
SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe'
STORED AS
INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat'
OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat'
TBLPROPERTIES ('avro.schema.literal'='{
  "namespace": "testing.hive.avro.serde",
  "name": "episodes",
  "type": "record",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name":"title",
      "type":"string",
      "doc":"episode title"
    },
    {
      "name":"air_date",
      "type":"string",
      "doc":"initial date"
    },
    {
      "name":"doctor",
      "type":"int",
      "doc":"main actor playing the Doctor in episode"
    }
  ]
}');

ALTER TABLE episodes_partitioned ADD PARTITION (doctor_pt=4);
ALTER TABLE episodes_partitioned ADD PARTITION (doctor_pt=5);
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM episodes_partitioned;

with following exception

java.io.IOException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerdeException: Neither avro.schema.literal nor avro.schema.url specified, can't determine table schema
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat.getHiveRecordWriter(AvroContainerOutputFormat.java:61)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Utilities.createEmptyFile(Utilities.java:2869)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Utilities.createDummyFileForEmptyPartition(Utilities.java:2901)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Utilities.getInputPaths(Utilities.java:2825)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecDriver.execute(ExecDriver.java:381)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask.execute(MapRedTask.java:136)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:151)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:65)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1409)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1187)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1015)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:883)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:413)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:348)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processReader(CliDriver.java:446)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processFile(CliDriver.java:456)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:737)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:614)

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-5302 PartitionPruner logs warning on Avro non-partitioned data
• is related to: HIVE-9056 Describe Avro Table Partition Fails