[IMPALA-4636] Add support for SLES12 for Impala/Kudu integration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.7.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.9.0
• Component/s: Backend
• Labels: kudu
• Assignee: Matthew Jacobs
• Reporter: David Knupp
• Created: 09/Dec/16 18:32
• Updated: 16/Jun/17 19:01
• Resolved: 29/Dec/16 22:55

Description

During remote cluster testing, we discovered that Impala integration is not supported on SLES12, even though SLES12 is on the list of Kudu's supported OS's.

(load-functional-query-exhaustive-impala-load-generated-kudu-none-none.sql):
INSERT into TABLE functional_kudu.alltypes
SELECT id, bool_col, tinyint_col, smallint_col, int_col, bigint_col, float_col, double_col, date_string_col, string_col,
       cast(timestamp_col as string), year, month
FROM functional.alltypes

Data Loading from Impala failed with error: ImpalaBeeswaxException:
 Query aborted:
Kudu is not supported on this operating system.

The problem is that we're not currently building a SLES12 client for Kudu. This is not a critical issue, but it should be added at some point.