[IMPALA-3569] TimezoneDatabase construction can silently fail

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.6.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.6.0
• Component/s: Backend
• Target Version: Impala 2.6.0
• Assignee: Tim Armstrong
• Reporter: Tim Armstrong
• Created: 18/May/16 19:03
• Updated: 20/May/16 15:53
• Resolved: 20/May/16 15:53

Description

If TimezoneDatabase::TimezoneDatabase() fails to create a temporary file, it simply logs an error and continues. Instead of doing this, we should just abort Impala process startup, the same as we would in other places.