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Why Hive Compaction is failing ?

Manus — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 04:40:20 GMT

Hi Everyone,
We have enabled hive compaction on transnational table in order to improve fetch query performance.Somehow it's not working at my end, am facing attached error which i observed in "hivemetastore.log".

Can somebody please let us know, How this issue can be resolved ?

Re: Why Hive Compaction is failing ?

rajkumar_singh — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 23:17:13 GMT

I think error log is pretty informative, getGroups call for $Superuser does not get any group associated with the user, you might need to run "hdfs groups" command on the HMS node for this user if that the case and fix the env issue.

Re: Why Hive Compaction is failing ?

Manus — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:06:54 GMT

Accidently , I marked this answer as resolved .
@rajkumar_singh

I am getting below output after executing "hdfs groups <username>" command.

<username>@<kerberose principle > : domain users dev_sudo

As i am not much aware of cluster configuration

So , Could you please help me to understand the output of this command.