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nirav patel updated HIVE-17236: ------------------------------- Description: Hive currently doesn't support wild card in path for external table. I think it should considering mapreduce framework supports it and it's a common requirement. Following should work CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE testTable (val map<string, string>) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LOCATION '/user/mycomp/customers/*/departments/partition/*/sales.tsv'; was: Hive currently doesn't support wild car in path for external table. I think it should considering mapreduce framework supports it and it's a common requirement. Following should work CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE testTable (val map<string, string>) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LOCATION '/user/mycomp/customers/*/departments/partition/*/sales.tsv'; > Add support for wild card LOCATION for external table > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-17236 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-17236 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Hive > Affects Versions: 1.2.2 > Reporter: nirav patel > > Hive currently doesn't support wild card in path for external table. I think > it should considering mapreduce framework supports it and it's a common > requirement. > Following should work > CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE testTable (val map<string, string>) > ROW FORMAT DELIMITED > FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' > LOCATION '/user/mycomp/customers/*/departments/partition/*/sales.tsv'; -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)