[HIVE-8107] Bad error message for non-existent table in update and delete

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 15/Sep/14 19:49
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:39
• Resolved: 19/Sep/14 00:54

Description

update no_such_table set x = 3;
produces an error message like:

2014-09-12 19:45:00,138 ERROR [main]: ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(824)) - FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10290]: Encountered parse error while parsing rewritten update or delete query
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticException: Encountered parse error while parsing rewritten update or delete query
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.reparseAndSuperAnalyze(UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.java:130)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeDelete(UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.java:97)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.java:66)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:217)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:406)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:302)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1051)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1121)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:988)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:978)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:246)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:198)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:408)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:344)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processReader(CliDriver.java:441)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processFile(CliDriver.java:457)
	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)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.InvalidTableException: Table not found no_such_table
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTable(Hive.java:1008)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTable(Hive.java:978)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.reparseAndSuperAnalyze(UpdateDeleteSemanticAnalyzer.java:128)
	... 24 more

It should give something much cleaner, or at least push the Table not found message to the top rather than bury it in an exception stack.