[HIVE-6328] Hive script should not overwrite AUX_CLASSPATH with HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH if the latter is set

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
• Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
• Created: 29/Jan/14 02:52
• Updated: 17/May/14 08:36
• Resolved: 01/Feb/14 03:19

Description

Hive script (bin/hive) replaces the value of AUX_CLASSPATH with the value of HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH if HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH is defined. This is not desirable because user uses the former to include additional classes when starting hive, while using the latter to specify additional jars that are needed to run MR jobs. The problem can be demonstrated with the script snippet:

elif [ "${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH}" != "" ]; then
  HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=`echo $HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH | sed 's/,/:/g'`
  if $cygwin; then
      HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=`cygpath -p -w "$HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH"`
      HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=`echo $HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH | sed 's/;/,/g'`
  fi
  AUX_CLASSPATH=${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH}
  AUX_PARAM="file://$(echo ${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH} | sed 's/:/,file:\/\//g')"
fi

AUX_CLASSPATH should be respected regardless whether HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH is defined.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-5410 Hive command line option --auxpath still does not work post HIVE-5363