[SENTRY-133] Alter table create partition if not exists - results in error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Brock Noland
• Reporter: Brock Noland
• Created: 07/Mar/14 15:49
• Updated: 07/Mar/14 18:20
• Resolved: 07/Mar/14 18:20

Description

Given:

create table parted (line string) partitioned by (day string);

The following fails:

alter table parted add if not exists partition (day='Monday');

and this succeeds:

alter table parted add partition (day='Monday');

2014-03-07 07:41:26,457 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver: FAILED: IllegalArgumentException URI '' in invalid. Must start with file:// or hdfs://
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI '' in invalid. Must start with file:// or hdfs://
	at org.apache.sentry.core.AccessURI.<init>(AccessURI.java:33)
	at org.apache.sentry.binding.hive.HiveAuthzBindingHook.parseURI(HiveAuthzBindingHook.java:272)
	at org.apache.sentry.binding.hive.HiveAuthzBindingHook.parseURI(HiveAuthzBindingHook.java:247)
	at org.apache.sentry.binding.hive.HiveAuthzBindingHook.extractPartition(HiveAuthzBindingHook.java:239)
	at org.apache.sentry.binding.hive.HiveAuthzBindingHook.preAnalyze(HiveAuthzBindingHook.java:171)