[SUPPORT] HiveSyncTool failure - Unable to create a `_ro` table when writing data

[shubhamn21]

Describe the problem you faced

Unable to write a hudi table to aws hadoop emr setup. From the error it seems that it is failing while creating a metadata table (with suffix _ro) with hive/glue. Am I missing a setting with hive to allow it create Null type tables? Are there alternative solutions?

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. While writing data: df.write.format("hudi")\ .mode('append') \ .options(**options)\ .partitionBy("kafka_topic", "event_dt") \ .saveAsTable('db_name.snimbalkar_test_table')

Expected behavior

Creates and stores table.

Environment Description

• Hudi version : 0.13.1

• Spark version : 3.30

• Hive version :

• Hadoop version : 3.2.1

• Storage (HDFS/S3/GCS..) : EMRFS

• Running on Docker? (yes/no) : no

Additional context

Add any other context about the problem here.

Stacktrace

: org.apache.hudi.exception.HoodieException: Could not sync using the meta sync class org.apache.hudi.hive.HiveSyncTool
	at org.apache.hudi.sync.common.util.SyncUtilHelpers.runHoodieMetaSync(SyncUtilHelpers.java:61)
	at org.apache.hudi.HoodieSparkSqlWriter$.$anonfun$metaSync$2(HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala:888)
	at scala.collection.mutable.HashSet.foreach(HashSet.scala:79)
	at org.apache.hudi.HoodieSparkSqlWriter$.metaSync(HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala:886)
	at org.apache.hudi.HoodieSparkSqlWriter$.bulkInsertAsRow(HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala:826)
	at org.apache.hudi.HoodieSparkSqlWriter$.write(HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala:322)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.hudi.command.InsertIntoHoodieTableCommand$.run(InsertIntoHoodieTableCommand.scala:107)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.hudi.command.CreateHoodieTableAsSelectCommand.run(CreateHoodieTableAsSelectCommand.scala:106)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.sideEffectResult$lzycompute(commands.scala:75)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.sideEffectResult(commands.scala:73)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.ExecutedCommandExec.executeCollect(commands.scala:84)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution$$anonfun$eagerlyExecuteCommands$1.$anonfun$applyOrElse$1(QueryExecution.scala:103)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.QueryPlanningTracker$.withTracker(QueryPlanningTracker.scala:107)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withTracker(SQLExecution.scala:224)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.executeQuery$1(SQLExecution.scala:114)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.$anonfun$withNewExecutionId$7(SQLExecution.scala:139)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.QueryPlanningTracker$.withTracker(QueryPlanningTracker.scala:107)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withTracker(SQLExecution.scala:224)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.$anonfun$withNewExecutionId$6(SQLExecution.scala:139)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withSQLConfPropagated(SQLExecution.scala:245)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.$anonfun$withNewExecutionId$1(SQLExecution.scala:138)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession.withActive(SparkSession.scala:779)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withNewExecutionId(SQLExecution.scala:68)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution$$anonfun$eagerlyExecuteCommands$1.applyOrElse(QueryExecution.scala:100)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution$$anonfun$eagerlyExecuteCommands$1.applyOrElse(QueryExecution.scala:96)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.$anonfun$transformDownWithPruning$1(TreeNode.scala:615)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.CurrentOrigin$.withOrigin(TreeNode.scala:177)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDownWithPruning(TreeNode.scala:615)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.LogicalPlan.org$apache$spark$sql$catalyst$plans$logical$AnalysisHelper$$super$transformDownWithPruning(LogicalPlan.scala:30)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.AnalysisHelper.transformDownWithPruning(AnalysisHelper.scala:267)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.AnalysisHelper.transformDownWithPruning$(AnalysisHelper.scala:263)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.LogicalPlan.transformDownWithPruning(LogicalPlan.scala:30)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.LogicalPlan.transformDownWithPruning(LogicalPlan.scala:30)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDown(TreeNode.scala:591)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.eagerlyExecuteCommands(QueryExecution.scala:96)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.commandExecuted$lzycompute(QueryExecution.scala:83)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.commandExecuted(QueryExecution.scala:81)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.assertCommandExecuted(QueryExecution.scala:124)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.runCommand(DataFrameWriter.scala:860)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.createTable(DataFrameWriter.scala:701)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.saveAsTable(DataFrameWriter.scala:679)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.saveAsTable(DataFrameWriter.scala:573)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
	at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
	at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282)
	at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
	at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
	at py4j.ClientServerConnection.waitForCommands(ClientServerConnection.java:182)
	at py4j.ClientServerConnection.run(ClientServerConnection.java:106)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)
Caused by: org.apache.hudi.exception.HoodieException: Got runtime exception when hive syncing snimbalkar_test_table
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.HiveSyncTool.syncHoodieTable(HiveSyncTool.java:165)
	at org.apache.hudi.sync.common.util.SyncUtilHelpers.runHoodieMetaSync(SyncUtilHelpers.java:59)
	... 53 more
Caused by: org.apache.hudi.hive.HoodieHiveSyncException: Failed to get table schema for : snimbalkar_test_table_ro
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.ddl.HMSDDLExecutor.getTableSchema(HMSDDLExecutor.java:194)
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.HoodieHiveSyncClient.getMetastoreSchema(HoodieHiveSyncClient.java:212)
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.HiveSyncTool.syncSchema(HiveSyncTool.java:334)
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.HiveSyncTool.syncHoodieTable(HiveSyncTool.java:252)
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.HiveSyncTool.doSync(HiveSyncTool.java:188)
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.HiveSyncTool.syncHoodieTable(HiveSyncTool.java:162)
	... 54 more
Caused by: InvalidObjectException(message:TableType cannot be null for table: snimbalkar_test_table_ro (Service: null; Status Code: 0; Error Code: null; Request ID: null; Proxy: null))
	at com.amazonaws.glue.catalog.converters.BaseCatalogToHiveConverter$5.get(BaseCatalogToHiveConverter.java:70)
	at com.amazonaws.glue.catalog.converters.BaseCatalogToHiveConverter.getHiveException(BaseCatalogToHiveConverter.java:109)
	at com.amazonaws.glue.catalog.converters.BaseCatalogToHiveConverter.wrapInHiveException(BaseCatalogToHiveConverter.java:100)
	at com.amazonaws.glue.catalog.metastore.GlueMetastoreClientDelegate.getTable(GlueMetastoreClientDelegate.java:450)
	at com.amazonaws.glue.catalog.metastore.AWSCatalogMetastoreClient.getTable(AWSCatalogMetastoreClient.java:1008)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient$SynchronizedHandler.invoke(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:2350)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy85.getTable(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hudi.hive.ddl.HMSDDLExecutor.getTableSchema(HMSDDLExecutor.java:180)
	... 59 more```