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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-9500: -------------------------------------- Doc note: "hive.serialization.extend.nesting.levels" and "hive.serialization.extend.additional.nesting.levels" are SerDe properties, not HiveConf properties. Their documentation should go in the Hive Types wikidoc, either in a new section for structs or in the existing "Complex Types" section, and perhaps in the DDL wikidoc. (One of these days we should add a section on SerDe properties to the Hive SerDes wikidoc.) * [Hive Data Types -- Complex Types | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types#LanguageManualTypes-ComplexTypes] * [DDL -- Create Table -- Row Format, Storage Format, and SerDe | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-RowFormat,StorageFormat,andSerDe] * [DDL -- Alter Table -- Add SerDe Properties | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AddSerDeProperties] * [Hive SerDes | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/SerDe] Javadoc descriptions for the properties are in serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/SerDeParameters.java: {code} + /** + * To be backward-compatible, initialize the first 3 separators to + * be the given values. Default number of separators to be 8; If only + * hive.serialization.extend.nesting.levels is set, extend the number of + * separators to be 24; if hive.serialization.extend.additional.nesting.levels + * is set, extend the number of separators to 154. + * @param tbl + */ {code} Editorial review: Please align the asterisks and change the first semicolon to a period ("to be 8; If only..."). > Support nested structs over 24 levels. > -------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9500 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9500 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Aihua Xu > Assignee: Aihua Xu > Labels: SerDe > Fix For: 1.2.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-9500.1.patch > > > Customer has deeply nested avro structure and is receiving the following > error when performing queries. > 15/01/09 20:59:29 ERROR ql.Driver: FAILED: SemanticException > org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException: Number of levels of nesting > supported for LazySimpleSerde is 23 Unable to work with level 24 > Currently we support up to 24 levels of nested structs when > hive.serialization.extend.nesting.levels is set to true, while the customers > have the requirement to support more than that. > It would be better to make the supported levels configurable or completely > removed (i.e., we can support any number of levels). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)