GitHub user utf7 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/90
fix the import database_name.table_name from path detail : use test; create table a(id int,name string); export table a to '/tmp/a'; drop table a; import table test.a from '/tmp/a'; hive> import table test.a from '/tmp/a'; Failed with exception Invalid table name test.test.a FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask when use import database_name.table_name from , the tblDesc.getTableName() return database_name.table_name ,not table_name Table table = new Table(dbname,database_name.table_name) will return the table's name is dbname.database_name.table_name correct table name should be test.a,not test.test.a we can fix this: String[] dbTableName =Utilities.getDbTableName(dbname,tblDesc.getTableName()); Table table = new Table(dbTableName[0], dbTableName[1]); You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/utf7/hive patch-2 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/90.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #90 ---- commit 3862872280c785e81a2b5d7bc0fee99d23b3de98 Author: utf7 <ycchen4w...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-07-20T08:55:52Z fix the import database_name.table_name from detail : use test; create table a(id int,name string); export table a to '/tmp/a'; drop table a; import table test.a from '/tmp/a'; hive> import table test.a from '/tmp/a'; Failed with exception Invalid table name test.test.a FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask when use import database_name.table_name from , the tblDesc.getTableName() return database_name.table_name ,not table_name Table table = new Table(dbname,database_name.table_name) will return the table's name is dbname.database_name.table_name correct table name should be test.a,not test.test.a we can fix this: String[] dbTableName =Utilities.getDbTableName(dbname,tblDesc.getTableName()); Table table = new Table(dbTableName[0], dbTableName[1]); ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---