Known Issues in Apache Hive

Technical Service Bulletins

TSB 2021-459: Renaming managed (ACID) table shows empty records

Renaming an ACID (managed) table using ALTER TABLE <table name> RENAME causes empty records in the table. Also, the location of the new table after renaming points to the location of the old table before renaming. This can cause correctness issues, for example:

create table abc (id int);
insert into abc values (1);
rename table abc to def; create table abc (id int); // should be empty
insert into abc values (2);
select * from abc ; // returns 1 and 2, the new and the old results

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB 2021-459: Renaming managed (ACID) table shows empty records

TSB 2021-480/1: Hive produces incorrect query results when skipping a header in a binary file

In CDP, setting the table property skip.header.line.count to greater than 0 in a table stored in a binary format, such as Parquet, can cause incorrect query results. The skip header property is intended for use with Text files and typically used with CSV files. The issue is not present when you run the query on a Text file that sets the skip header property to 1 or greater.

Upstream JIRA

Apache Jira: HIVE-24827

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB-2021 480.1: Hive produces incorrect query results when skipping a header in a binary file

TSB 2021-480/2: Hive ignores the property to skip a header or footer in a compressed file

In CDP, setting the table properties skip.header.line.count and skip.footer.line.count to greater than 0 in a table stored in a compressed format, such as bzip2, can cause incorrect results from SELECT * or SELECT COUNT ( * ) queries.

Upstream JIRA

Apache Jira: HIVE-24224

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB-2021 480.2: Hive ignores the property to skip a header or footer in a compressed file

TSB 2021-482: Race condition in subdirectory delete/rename causes hive jobs to fail

Multiple threads try to perform a rename operation on s3. One of the threads fails to perform a rename operation, causing an error. Hive logs will report "HiveException: Error moving ..." and the log will contain an error line starting with " Exception when loading partition " -all paths listed with s3a:// prefixes.

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB 2021-482: Race condition in subdirectory delete/rename causes Hive jobs to fail

TSB 2021-501: JOIN queries return wrong result for join keys with large size in Hive

JOIN queries return wrong results when performing joins on large size keys (larger than 255 bytes). This happens when the fast hash table join algorithm is enabled, which is enabled by default.

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB 2021-501: JOIN queries return wrong result for join keys with large size in Hive

TSB 2021-518: Incorrect results returned when joining two tables with different bucketing versions

Incorrect results are returned when joining two tables with different bucketing versions, and with the following Hive configurations: set hive.auto.convert.join = false and set mapreduce.job.reduces = any custom value.

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB 2021-518: Incorrect results returned when joining two tables with different bucketing versions

TSB 2021-524: Intermittent data duplication if direct insert enabled

If direct insert is enabled, data is written directly to the final location with an attemptId. At the end of the insert operation, all data written before the final attempt should be deleted. However due to a bug in HIVE-21164, this does not happen.

Example: Data is written to the final location with attemptId=0, but this task fails. Hive tries the task again and writes data to the final location with attemptId=1. At the end of the insert, Hive should remove all the files with attemptId=0, but it does not.

Upstream JIRA

• HIVE-21164
• HIVE-24322

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB 2021-524: Intermittent data duplication if direct insert enabled

TSB 2022-526: A Hive query may produce wrong results for some vectorized built-in functions with compound expression in PARTITION BY or ORDER BY clause

Vectorized functions with PARTITION BY and/or ORDER BY clauses where the partition or order by expression is compound (example: cast string to integer) and not just a simple column reference may be broken.

The query may fail or output wrong results, depending on the compound expression. For example:

• Cast integer to string results in query failure with a NullPointerExpression
• Cast string to integer outputs wrong results

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB 2022-526: A Hive query may produce wrong results for some vectorized built-in functions with compound expression in PARTITION BY or ORDER BY clause

TSB 2023-627: IN/OR predicate on binary column returns wrong result

An IN or an OR predicate involving a binary datatype column may produce wrong results. The OR predicate is converted to an IN due to the setting hive.optimize.point.lookup which is true by default. Only binary data types are affected by this issue. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-26235 for example queries which may be affected.

Upstream JIRA

HIVE-26235

Knowledge article

For the latest update on this issue, see the corresponding Knowledge article: TSB 2023-627: IN/OR predicate on binary column returns wrong result