Updating the time_firstbyte column from float to double (bug 73018) using a plain
ALTER TABLE webrequest CHANGE time_firstbyte time_firstbyte double;
succeeded without an error, but afterwards, it was no longer possible to
select data:
hive (wmf_raw)> select * from webrequest where webrequest_source='mobile' and year=2014 and month=11 and day=6 and hour=10 limit 2; OK hostname sequence dt time_firstbyte ip cache_status http_status response_size http_method uri_host uri_path uri_query content_type referer x_forwarded_for user_agent accept_language x_analytics webrequest_source year month day hour Failed with exception java.io.IOException:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Error evaluating hostname
Hive does not like us :-)
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Severity: normal