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Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-8678: ---------------------------------------- What storage format are you using for the table in question? (i.e. is it Text, RCFile, ORC, something else?) > Pig fails to correctly load DATE fields using HCatalog > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-8678 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8678 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: HCatalog > Affects Versions: 0.13.1 > Reporter: Michael McLellan > Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan > > Using: > Hadoop 2.5.0-cdh5.2.0 > Pig 0.12.0-cdh5.2.0 > Hive 0.13.1-cdh5.2.0 > When using pig -useHCatalog to load a Hive table that has a DATE field, when > trying to DUMP the field, the following error occurs: > {code} > 2014-10-30 22:58:05,469 [main] ERROR > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.Launcher - > org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 6018: Error > converting read value to tuple > at > org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.HCatBaseLoader.getNext(HCatBaseLoader.java:76) > at org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.HCatLoader.getNext(HCatLoader.java:58) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigRecordReader.nextKeyValue(PigRecordReader.java:211) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$NewTrackingRecordReader.nextKeyValue(MapTask.java:553) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.MapContextImpl.nextKeyValue(MapContextImpl.java:80) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.map.WrappedMapper$Context.nextKeyValue(WrappedMapper.java:91) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:144) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:784) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:341) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:168) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) > at > org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1614) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:163) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to > java.sql.Date > at > org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.PigHCatUtil.extractPigObject(PigHCatUtil.java:420) > at > org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.PigHCatUtil.transformToTuple(PigHCatUtil.java:457) > at > org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.PigHCatUtil.transformToTuple(PigHCatUtil.java:375) > at > org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.HCatBaseLoader.getNext(HCatBaseLoader.java:64) > 2014-10-30 22:58:05,469 [main] ERROR > org.apache.pig.tools.pigstats.SimplePigStats - ERROR 6018: Error converting > read value to tuple > {code} > It seems to be occuring here: > https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/trunk/hcatalog/hcatalog-pig-adapter/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/pig/PigHCatUtil.java#L433 > and that it should be: > {code}Date d = Date.valueOf(o);{code} > instead of > {code}Date d = (Date) o;{code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)