Hey Bradford - from my experience that error occurs when there's a conflict between the "default.fs.name" setting and the value in the metastore.SDS.location column in the Hive metadata. For us this has occurred when either migrating to a new cluster or changing the NN hostname. Not sure how all this works with AWS/EMR, but that's the first thing I'd check.
Jonathan On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Bradford Stephens < bradfordsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey amigos, > > I'm doing a EMR load for HDFS to S3 data. My example looks correct, > but I'm getting an odd error. Since all the EMR data is in one > directory, I'm copying the file to HDFS, then doing 'LOAD DATA INPATH' > to put it back into S3. > > CREATE TABLE events( > ..blahblah... > ) > ROW FORMAT DELIMITED > FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' > STORED AS TEXTFILE > LOCATION 's3://outputdir/table_out/events' > ; > > LOAD DATA INPATH '/user/hadoop/eos/events_20110107.csv.gz' overwrite > INTO TABLE events; > > The error I get is: > FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 3:17 Path is not legal > '/user/hadoop/eos/events_20110430.csv.gz': Move from: > > hdfs://domU-12-31-39-14-19-F1.compute-1.internal:9000/user/hadoop/eos/events_20110430.csv.gz > to: s3://outputdir/table_out/events is not valid. Please check that > values for params "default.fs.name" and "hive.metastore.warehouse.dir" > do not conflict. > > This is EMR, and I've checked the params and see they do not conflict. > > > -- > Bradford Stephens, > CEO and Founder, Drawn to Scale > http://drawntoscale.com > (530) 763-DATA > > http://www.drawntoscale.com -- Spire, the "Heroku for Big Data" >
