Venkata Karthik Penikalapati created HIVE-16720: ---------------------------------------------------
Summary: Reorder columns in Hive parquet tables Key: HIVE-16720 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16720 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Hive Affects Versions: 1.1.0 Reporter: Venkata Karthik Penikalapati We are using hive 1.3 have a requirement to reorder columns for one of huge table with 100's of columns for user readability. But when we reorder columns in table its failing with below error. hive> desc test_parquet; OK name string age int dept string salary string city string # Partition Information # col_name data_type comment city string Time taken: 0.053 seconds, Fetched: 10 row(s) hive> ALTER TABLE test_parquet REPLACE COLUMNS (age int,name string, dept string, salary string); OK Time taken: 0.451 seconds hive> desc test_parquet; OK age int name string dept string salary string city string # Partition Information # col_name data_type comment city string Time taken: 0.051 seconds, Fetched: 10 row(s) hive> select * from test_parquet; OK Failed with exception java.io.IOException:java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot inspect org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable Time taken: 0.121 seconds -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)