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Hive meta store fails to start with MetaException column does not exist

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I see this exception for a range of tables and columns:

 

12:58:10.926 PMERRORorg.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore
Error retrieving statistics via jdo
MetaException(message:Column TPOW_OPT1TPRICE doesn't exist.)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.validateTableCols(ObjectStore.java:5741)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getMTableColumnStatistics(ObjectStore.java:5692)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.access$1000(ObjectStore.java:147)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore$5.getJdoResult(ObjectStore.java:5763)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore$5.getJdoResult(ObjectStore.java:5755)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore$GetHelper.run(ObjectStore.java:2223)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getTableColumnStatisticsInternal(ObjectStore.java:5755)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getTableColumnStatistics(ObjectStore.java:5749)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:108)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.getTableColumnStatistics(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.get_table_statistics_req(HiveMetaStore.java:3568)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:106)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy5.get_table_statistics_req(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$get_table_statistics_req.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9528)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$get_table_statistics_req.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9512)
	at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:110)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:107)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1642)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure.doAs(HadoopShimsSecure.java:502)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor.process(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:118)
	at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:244)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

 

 

In addition to this:

 

2:32:56.515 PMERRORorg.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler
NoSuchObjectException(message:There is no database named cloudera_manager_metastore_canary_test_db_hive_hivemetastore_be54987370afe9de58b7ef7de50b5db5)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getMDatabase(ObjectStore.java:495)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getDatabase(ObjectStore.java:506)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:108)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.getDatabase(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.get_database(HiveMetaStore.java:805)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:106)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy5.get_database(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$get_database.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:7696)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$get_database.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:7680)
	at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:110)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:107)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1642)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure.doAs(HadoopShimsSecure.java:502)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor.process(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:118)
	at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:244)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

 

Any help or suggestions would be hugely appreciated.

 

James

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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Contributor

I think this might be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9620 which is caused for avro tables and a case difference on column names.

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Forgot to mention, running CDH 5.3, Impala 2.1.0

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Contributor

Is TPOW_OPT1TPRICE a column in one of your tables? It's certainly not a column in the HMS. When do you get this error about TPOW_OPT1TPRICE and does it fail the query?

 

Cheers,

Brock

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Brock,

 

Thank you for your reply.  Yes this is one of our columns.  The failure occurs when the hive metastore starts.  We see these stack traces for lots of columns that we have added (possibly even all of them).  If we try and exectue a query again this table we get a broken pipe unable to connect to metastore exception.  Hue also fails when trying to browse metadata.

 

James

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Contributor

I think this might be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9620 which is caused for avro tables and a case difference on column names.

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Hi Brock - thanks for your reply.  I had previously solved the problem, but yes this was the issue.

 

James