Hi Tom,   due to other complications, I'm afraid that patch didn't make it into CDH 5.4.4, but we will include it in CDH 5.4.5 which is tentatively scheduled for the beginning of September.   Thanks for your patience, and my apologies that the fix did not make it into CDH 5.4.4.   Alex ... View more

This seems to be a bug and hope we get the fix included in cdh 5.4.3.   one of the work arounds observed was to   Have 2 hive table pointing to the same locationg nad have onle of the table accessed through Impala while thye other is accessed through Hive.     ... View more