[IMPALA-295] impala not populating hive metadata correctly for create table

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 0.7
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.0
• Assignee: Lenni Kuff
• Reporter: Greg Rahn
• Created: 19/Apr/13 23:48
• Updated: 23/Apr/13 20:33
• Resolved: 23/Apr/13 20:33

Description

Running the following:

hive> create table hive_tab (c1 int);
impala> create table impala_tab (c1 int);

The hive metatstore shows this:

mysql> select * from TBLS where tbl_id > 693;
--------+-------------+-------+------------------+--------+-----------+-------+------------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------------+
 TBL_ID | CREATE_TIME | DB_ID | LAST_ACCESS_TIME | OWNER  | RETENTION | SD_ID |  TBL_NAME  |   TBL_TYPE    | VIEW_EXPANDED_TEXT | VIEW_ORIGINAL_TEXT | LINK_TARGET_ID |
--------+-------------+-------+------------------+--------+-----------+-------+------------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------------+
 697    |  1366414997 | 31    |                0 | grahn  |         0 | 4922  | hive_tab   | MANAGED_TABLE | [NULL]             | [NULL]             | [NULL]         |
 698    |  1366415004 | 31    |                0 | [NULL] |         0 | 4923  | impala_tab | [NULL]        | [NULL]             | [NULL]             | [NULL]         |
--------+-------------+-------+------------------+--------+-----------+-------+------------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------------+

Neither OWNER nor TBL_TYPE are populated by impala.