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Szehon Ho commented on HIVE-8950:
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Hello, I'm a few years late :) but in Criteo we have been using this patch for
a few months and it's really great. I'll +1 the patch and try to rebase and
get it in, if its ok for everyone here
> Add support in ParquetHiveSerde to create table schema from a parquet file
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>
> Key: HIVE-8950
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8950
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ashish Singh
> Assignee: Gaurav Kumar
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: HIVE-8950.1.patch, HIVE-8950.2.patch, HIVE-8950.3.patch,
> HIVE-8950.4.patch, HIVE-8950.5.patch, HIVE-8950.6.patch, HIVE-8950.7.patch,
> HIVE-8950.8.patch, HIVE-8950.patch
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> PARQUET-76 and PARQUET-47 ask for creating parquet backed tables without
> having to specify the column names and types. As, parquet files store schema
> in their footer, it is possible to generate hive schema from parquet file's
> metadata. This will improve usability of parquet backed tables.
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