HadoopPath must not be null when bucket doesn't exists.

[martijnvdgrift]

When trying to create a schema in Hive on Dataproc 1.4 using the following command:

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS mynewdb LOCATION 'gs://non-existing-bucket';

The following errors occurs:

Error: org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: hadoopPath must not be null)
    at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.Operation.toSQLException(Operation.java:380)
    at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.runQuery(SQLOperation.java:257)
    at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.access$800(SQLOperation.java:91)
    at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation$BackgroundWork$1.run(SQLOperation.java:348)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
    at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1893)
    at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation$BackgroundWork.run(SQLOperation.java:362)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: hadoopPath must not be null)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createDatabase(Hive.java:434)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.createDatabase(DDLTask.java:4243)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:319)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:199)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:100)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:2183)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1839)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1526)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1237)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1232)
    at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.runQuery(SQLOperation.java:255)
    ... 11 more
Caused by: MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: hadoopPath must not be null)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$create_database_result$create_database_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:26505)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$create_database_result$create_database_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:26473)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$create_database_result.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:26407)
    at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:86)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.recv_create_database(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:749)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.create_database(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:736)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.createDatabase(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:727)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor28.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.invoke(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:173)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy34.createDatabase(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor28.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient$SynchronizedHandler.invoke(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:2330)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy34.createDatabase(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createDatabase(Hive.java:428)
    ... 21 more (state=08S01,code=1)

[brubom]

Have you found a workaround for this?