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Alexander Behm commented on HIVE-4022:
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Easier workaround:
IF(false, named_struct("a", 1), NULL)
> Structs and struct fields cannot be NULL in INSERT statements
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>
> Key: HIVE-4022
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4022
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Serializers/Deserializers
> Reporter: Michael Malak
>
> Originally thought to be Avro-specific, and first noted with respect to
> HIVE-3528 "Avro SerDe doesn't handle serializing Nullable types that require
> access to a Schema", it turns out even native Hive tables cannot store NULL
> in a STRUCT field or for the entire STRUCT itself, at least when the NULL is
> specified directly in the INSERT statement.
> Again, this affects both Avro-backed tables and native Hive tables.
> ***For native Hive tables:
> The following:
> echo 1,2 >twovalues.csv
> hive
> CREATE TABLE tc (x INT, y INT) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',';
> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'twovalues.csv' INTO TABLE tc;
> CREATE TABLE oc (z STRUCT<a: int, b: int>);
> INSERT INTO TABLE oc SELECT null FROM tc;
> produces the error
> FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 1:18 Cannot insert into target
> table because column number/types are different 'oc': Cannot convert column 0
> from void to struct<a:int,b:int>.
> The following:
> INSERT INTO TABLE oc SELECT named_struct('a', null, 'b', null) FROM tc;
> produces the error:
> FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 1:18 Cannot insert into target
> table because column number/types are different 'oc': Cannot convert column 0
> from struct<a:void,b:void> to struct<a:int,b:int>.
> ***For Avro:
> In HIVE-3528, there is in fact a null-struct test case in line 14 of
> https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/15cc604bf10f4c2502cb88fb8bb3dcd45647cf2c/data/files/csv.txt
> The test script at
> https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/12d6f3e7d21f94e8b8490b7c6d291c9f4cac8a4f/ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/avro_nullable_fields.q
> does indeed work. But in that test, the query gets all of its data from a
> test table verbatim:
> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE as_avro SELECT * FROM test_serializer;
> If instead we stick in a hard-coded null for the struct directly into the
> query, it fails:
> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE as_avro SELECT string1, int1, tinyint1, smallint1,
> bigint1, boolean1, float1, double1, list1, map1, null, enum1, nullableint,
> bytes1, fixed1 FROM test_serializer;
> with the following error:
> FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 1:23 Cannot insert into target
> table because column number/types are different 'as_avro': Cannot convert
> column 10 from void to struct<sint:int,sboolean:boolean,sstring:string>.
> Note, though, that substituting a hard-coded null for string1 (and restoring
> struct1 into the query) does work:
> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE as_avro SELECT null, int1, tinyint1, smallint1,
> bigint1, boolean1, float1, double1, list1, map1, struct1, enum1, nullableint,
> bytes1, fixed1 FROM test_serializer;
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