[OOZIE-2047] Oozie does not support Hive tables that use datatypes introduced since Hive 0.8

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.0
• Assignee: Venkat Ranganathan
• Reporter: Venkat Ranganathan
• Created: 28/Oct/14 13:54
• Updated: 18/May/15 07:11
• Resolved: 30/Oct/14 02:52

Description

Oozie uses HCatalog APIs in org.apache.hcatalog packages. Those APIs were present until Hive 0.13 but were frozen in their support of the Hive features to what existed in Hive 0.7 Using these APIs precludes users from using Oozie hcatalog dependencies on tables that use the new APIs.

The fix is to simply change the package used to the new org.apache.hive.hcatalog packag. .

Note that these APIs are not available in HCatalog 0.5 or 0.6. So we have to drop support for those HCatalog versions once we start using this package