[SQOOP-2257] Parquet target for imports with Hive overwrite option does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.6
• Component/s: hive-integration
• Assignee: Qian Xu
• Reporter: Pavas Garg
• Created: 20/Mar/15 17:12
• Updated: 24/Mar/15 23:55
• Resolved: 24/Mar/15 13:44

Description

Parquet data import into a Hive table may fail if called a second time with the --hive-overwrite option set.

1: Run a successful Sqoop --hive-import
2. And run another import with --hive-overwrite option, to just overwrite the previously loaded data

Observed error:

ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: org.kitesdk.data.DatasetExistsException: Metadata already exists for dataset: foo.bar
org.kitesdk.data.DatasetExistsException: Metadata already exists for dataset: foo.bar
	at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.HiveManagedMetadataProvider.create(HiveManagedMetadataProvider.java:51)
	at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.HiveManagedDatasetRepository.create(HiveManagedDatasetRepository.java:77)
	at org.kitesdk.data.Datasets.create(Datasets.java:239)
	at org.kitesdk.data.Datasets.create(Datasets.java:307)
	at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ParquetJob.createDataset(ParquetJob.java:102)
	at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ParquetJob.configureImportJob(ParquetJob.java:89)
	at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.DataDrivenImportJob.configureMapper(DataDrivenImportJob.java:106)
	at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.runImport(ImportJobBase.java:260)
	at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.importTable(SqlManager.java:668)
	at org.apache.sqoop.manager.MySQLManager.importTable(MySQLManager.java:118)
	at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:497)
	at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:605)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236)