MetaException(message:Version information not found in metastore. )
Hive now records the schema version in the metastore database and verifies that the metastore schema version is compatible with Hive binaries that are going to accesss the metastore. Note that the Hive properties to implicitly create or alter the existing schema are disabled by default. Hive will not attempt to change the metastore schema implicitly. When you execute a Hive query against an old schema, it will fail to access the metastore:
$ build/dist/bin/hive -e "show tables" FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient
The log will contain an error about version information not found:
... Caused by: MetaException(message:Version information not found in metastore. ) ...
By deafult the configuration property hive.metastore.schema.verification is false and metastore to implicitly write the schema version if its not matching. To enable the strict schema verification, you need to set this property to true in hive-site.xml.