[HIVE-7374] SHOW COMPACTIONS fail with remote metastore when there are no compations

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Metastore, Thrift API
• Labels: cli compaction metastore
• Assignee: Damien Carol
• Reporter: Damien Carol
• Created: 09/Jul/14 16:02
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:41
• Resolved: 21/Jul/14 06:14

Description

Prerequistes :
1. Remote metastore
2. No compactions

In CLI after doing this :
show compactions;
Return error :

FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException

In metatore logs :

2014-07-09 17:54:10,537 ERROR [pool-3-thread-20]: server.TThreadPoolServer (TThreadPoolServer.java:run(213)) - Thrift error occurred during processing of message.
org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException: Required field 'compacts' is unset! Struct:ShowCompactResponse(compacts:null)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ShowCompactResponse.validate(ShowCompactResponse.java:310)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$show_compact_result.validate(ThriftHiveMetastore.java)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$show_compact_result$show_compact_resultStandardScheme.write(ThriftHiveMetastore.java)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$show_compact_result$show_compact_resultStandardScheme.write(ThriftHiveMetastore.java)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$show_compact_result.write(ThriftHiveMetastore.java)
        at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:53)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor.process(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:103)
        at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:206)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

Issue Links

• links to: Review Board #23482