CDH 4 Release Notes

The following lists all Apache Hive Jiras included in CDH 4 that are not included in the Apache Hive base version 0.10.0. The hive-0.10.0-cdh4.2.0.CHANGES.txt file lists all changes included in CDH 4. The patch for each change can be found in the cloudera/patches directory in the release tarball.

Changes Not In Apache Hive 0.10.0

Hive

Bug

[HIVE-4024] - Derby metastore update script will fail when upgrading from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0
[HIVE-4021] - PostgreSQL upgrade scripts are creating column with incorrect name
[HIVE-3179] - HBase Handler doesn't handle NULLs properly
[HIVE-3977] - Hive 0.10 postgres schema script is broken
[HIVE-3766] - Enable adding hooks to hive meta store init
[HIVE-3699] - Multiple insert overwrite into multiple tables query stores same results in all tables
[HIVE-3931] - Add Oracle metastore upgrade script for 0.9 to 10.0
[HIVE-3665] - Allow URIs without port to be specified in metatool
[HIVE-2878] - TestHBaseMinimrCliDriver hbase_bulk.m fails on 0.23
[HIVE-2860] - TestNegativeCliDriver autolocal1.q fails on 0.23
[HIVE-3025] - Fix Hive ARCHIVE command on 0.22 and 0.23

Improvement

[HIVE-3231] - msck repair should find partitions already containing data files
[HIVE-3799] - Better error message if metalisteners or hookContext cannot be loaded/instantiated
[HIVE-3004] - RegexSerDe should support other column types in addition to STRING
[HIVE-3709] - Stop storing default ConfVars in temp file