[IMPALA-6239] Remote data load breaks with "LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH": Invalid path

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.11.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.11.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Epic Color: ghx-label-5
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Knupp
• Created: 25/Nov/17 01:34
• Updated: 28/Nov/17 22:26
• Resolved: 28/Nov/17 22:26

Description

A recent patch to correct IMPALA-6068 introduced the use of LOAD DATA LOCAL throughout our data load process. This improved the efficiency of loading data onto the local mini-cluster, but it breaks the ability to use those same scripts to load data onto a remote cluster.

With https://github.com/apache/incubator-impala/commit/e4f585240ac8f478e25402806f4ea38531b4bf84

0: jdbc:hive2://impala-remote-cluster-tests-1> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/data1/systest/cdh/testing/infra/quasar/deploy/rt/common_tests/impala/Impala/testdata/avro_null_c
har/000000_0'
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> OVERWRITE INTO TABLE functional_avro_snap.avro_unicode_nulls;
going to print operations logs
printed operations logs
Getting log thread is interrupted, since query is done!
Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException Line 1:23 Invalid path ''/data1/systest/cdh/testing/infra/quasar/deploy/rt/common_tests/impala/Impala/testda
ta/avro_null_char/000000_0'': No files matching path file:/data1/systest/cdh/testing/infra/quasar/deploy/rt/common_tests/impala/Impala/testdata/avro_null_char/000000_0 (state
=42000,code=40000)
org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException Line 1:23 Invalid path ''/data1/systest/cdh/testing/infra/quasar/deploy/rt/common_tests/impala/Impala/testdata/avro_null_char/000000_0'': No files matching path file:/data1/systest/cdh/testing/infra/quasar/deploy/rt/common_tests/impala/Impala/testdata/avro_null_char/000000_0

Behavior before the patch:

0: jdbc:hive2://impala-remote-cluster-tests-1> create external table if not exists functional_avro_snap.avro_unicode_nulls like functional.liketbl stored as avro LOCATION '/test-warehouse/avro_null_char';
going to print operations logs
printed operations logs
Getting log thread is interrupted, since query is done!
INFO  : Compiling command(queryId=hive_20171124171616_d48b8d8e-388e-420e-be10-fb1dd6ef5fa9): create external table if not exists functional_avro_snap.avro_unicode_nulls like functional.liketbl stored as avro LOCATION '/test-warehouse/avro_null_char'
INFO  : Semantic Analysis Completed
INFO  : Returning Hive schema: Schema(fieldSchemas:null, properties:null)
INFO  : Completed compiling command(queryId=hive_20171124171616_d48b8d8e-388e-420e-be10-fb1dd6ef5fa9); Time taken: 0.002 seconds
INFO  : Executing command(queryId=hive_20171124171616_d48b8d8e-388e-420e-be10-fb1dd6ef5fa9): create external table if not exists functional_avro_snap.avro_unicode_nulls like functional.liketbl stored as avro LOCATION '/test-warehouse/avro_null_char'
INFO  : Starting task [Stage-0:DDL] in serial mode
INFO  : Completed executing command(queryId=hive_20171124171616_d48b8d8e-388e-420e-be10-fb1dd6ef5fa9); Time taken: 0.022 seconds
INFO  : OK

Issue Links

• is broken by: IMPALA-6068 Dataload does not populate functional_*.complextypes_fileformat correctly