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Venkata Karthik Penikalapati updated HIVE-16720: ------------------------------------------------ Description: We are using hive 1.1.0 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 was: 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 > 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 1.1.0 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)