Re: querying objects and list fields

2013-01-25 Thread Dean Wampler
Use size instead of count. Count is for counting rows, while size is for determining the size of a collection. For the second question, I think you'll need to call explode on the array, turning it into records first. Google for hive's "lateral view" to see the correct syntax for exploding and al

querying objects and list fields

2013-01-25 Thread Lauren Blau
I'm building up a set of classes (objectinspectors and serdes) to allow hive queries over some data files I have. While I'm making it work, I don't fully grok all the concepts involved. Right now I've got 2 questions. I'm able to make queries like this (this is the first syntax I tried to query in