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Known issues in Hive

Review known issues and technical limitations for Hive in Cloudera Data Warehouse on cloud version 2026.0.21.4-12.

Known issues identified in the September 18, 2026 release

There are no new known issues identified in this release.

Known issues identified before the September 18, 2026 release

CDPD-76600: CTAS with decimal joins on Parquet tables
When creating a Parquet table using CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) query, a runtime error occurs if the SELECT statement involves a JOIN operation on columns with different decimal precision or scale. This causes the job to fail with a Fixed Binary size error.
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Apache Jira: HIVE-26877

CDPD-73181: Compile-time OOM with transitive predicates
A compile-time out-of-memory (OOM) error occurs when running certain queries with complex JOINS and UNION clauses.
None.

Apache Jira: HIVE-28310, HIVE-25758

DWX-18854: Compaction cleaner configuration
The compaction cleaner is turned off by default in the Cloudera Data Warehouse database catalog, potentially causing compaction job failures.
To enable the compactor on the Hive Metastore (HMS) instance of the Cloudera Data Warehouse database catalog, set the hive.compactor.cleaner.on property to true.