Hi Geoffrey,
Thanks for checking!
I think, all is fine with metastore - please see output for your statements:
mysql> use hive;
Database changed
mysql> show tables;
+---------------------------+
| Tables_in_hive |
+---------------------------+
| AUX_TABLE |
| BUCKETING_COLS |
| CDS |
| COLUMNS_V2 |
| COMPACTION_QUEUE |
| COMPLETED_COMPACTIONS |
| COMPLETED_TXN_COMPONENTS |
| DATABASE_PARAMS |
| DBS |
| DB_PRIVS |
| DELEGATION_TOKENS |
| FUNCS |
| FUNC_RU |
| GLOBAL_PRIVS |
| HIVE_LOCKS |
| IDXS |
| INDEX_PARAMS |
| KEY_CONSTRAINTS |
| MASTER_KEYS |
| NEXT_COMPACTION_QUEUE_ID |
| NEXT_LOCK_ID |
| NEXT_TXN_ID |
| NOTIFICATION_LOG |
| NOTIFICATION_SEQUENCE |
| NUCLEUS_TABLES |
| PARTITIONS |
| PARTITION_EVENTS |
| PARTITION_KEYS |
| PARTITION_KEY_VALS |
| PARTITION_PARAMS |
| PART_COL_PRIVS |
| PART_COL_STATS |
| PART_PRIVS |
| ROLES |
| ROLE_MAP |
| SDS |
| SD_PARAMS |
| SEQUENCE_TABLE |
| SERDES |
| SERDE_PARAMS |
| SKEWED_COL_NAMES |
| SKEWED_COL_VALUE_LOC_MAP |
| SKEWED_STRING_LIST |
| SKEWED_STRING_LIST_VALUES |
| SKEWED_VALUES |
| SORT_COLS |
| TABLE_PARAMS |
| TAB_COL_STATS |
| TBLS |
| TBL_COL_PRIVS |
| TBL_PRIVS |
| TXNS |
| TXN_COMPONENTS |
| TYPES |
| TYPE_FIELDS |
| VERSION |
| WRITE_SET |
+---------------------------+
57 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from TBLS;
+--------+-------------+-------+------------------+-------+-----------+-------+-----------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| TBL_ID | CREATE_TIME | DB_ID | LAST_ACCESS_TIME | OWNER | RETENTION | SD_ID | TBL_NAME | TBL_TYPE | VIEW_EXPANDED_TEXT | VIEW_ORIGINAL_TEXT |
+--------+-------------+-------+------------------+-------+-----------+-------+-----------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 6 | 1519669737 | 6 | 0 | dm | 0 | 6 | addresses | MANAGED_TABLE | NULL | NULL |
+--------+-------------+-------+------------------+-------+-----------+-------+-----------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Now second part:
hive> create table artur(id int, name string);
OK
Time taken: 3.358 seconds
hive> describe artur;
OK
id int
name string
Time taken: 0.531 seconds, Fetched: 2 row(s)
hive> insert into artur values (6,"Errors");
Query ID = hive_20180318162126_ce71dcd8-26ec-4ea5-9d3d-426975dc81d5
Total jobs = 1
Launching Job 1 out of 1
Status: Running (Executing on YARN cluster with App id application_1521294403728_0006)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VERTICES STATUS TOTAL COMPLETED RUNNING PENDING FAILED KILLED
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Map 1 .......... SUCCEEDED 1 1 0 0 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VERTICES: 01/01 [==========================>>] 100% ELAPSED TIME: 4.19 s
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading data to table default.artur
Table default.artur stats: [numFiles=1, numRows=1, totalSize=9, rawDataSize=8]
OK
Time taken: 6.754 seconds
and output from MySQL:
mysql> use hive;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
mysql> select * from TBLS;
+--------+-------------+-------+------------------+-------+-----------+-------+-----------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| TBL_ID | CREATE_TIME | DB_ID | LAST_ACCESS_TIME | OWNER | RETENTION | SD_ID | TBL_NAME | TBL_TYPE | VIEW_EXPANDED_TEXT | VIEW_ORIGINAL_TEXT |
+--------+-------------+-------+------------------+-------+-----------+-------+-----------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 6 | 1519669737 | 6 | 0 | dm | 0 | 6 | addresses | MANAGED_TABLE | NULL | NULL |
| 11 | 1521386475 | 1 | 0 | hive | 0 | 11 | artur | MANAGED_TABLE | NULL | NULL |
+--------+-------------+-------+------------------+-------+-----------+-------+-----------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
