[HIVE-7579] error message for 'drop admin role' in sql std auth mode is not informative

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Authorization, SQLStandardAuthorization
• Assignee: Thejas Nair
• Reporter: Deepesh Khandelwal
• Created: 31/Jul/14 22:28
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:40
• Resolved: 04/Aug/14 04:46

Description

In SQL standards based auth mode, 'drop role admin' error message is not informative.

0: jdbc:hive2://...:1000> drop role ADMIN;
Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.
Error dropping role (state=08S01,code=1)

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