I can't find any examples anywhere. -Ayon See My Photos on Flickr Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions.
________________________________ From: Ayon Sinha <ayonsi...@yahoo.com> To: Hive Mailinglist <user@hive.apache.org> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:09 PM Subject: Using Hive Thrift SerDe Hi, I can't seem to make Hive find the Thrift SerDe. What do I need to do? hive> add jar /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-serde-0.7.0-cdh3u0.jar; Added /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-serde-0.7.0-cdh3u0.jar to class path Added resource: /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-serde-0.7.0-cdh3u0.jar hive> CREATE external TABLE scratch.sk_logs (user_id bigint, request_type int) > ROW FORMAT SERDE "org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.thrift.ThriftByteStreamTypedSerDe" LOCATION '/user/ayon/hiveserdetest' ; FAILED: Error in metadata: Cannot validate serde: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.thrift.ThriftByteStreamTypedSerDe FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask hive> -Ayon See My Photos on Flickr Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions.