Hi Sam, I tried running this against the hive-0.8.0 release tarball and did not encounter any problems. Is it possible that you have some old JARs or shell scripts hanging around from a previous Hive install?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Sam William <sa...@stumbleupon.com> wrote: > We recently upgraded to Hive-0.8.0 and noticed that all queries fail > when run as hive -e <query> with the error , > > > sampd@face:~$ hive -e "show tables;" > > FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:0 cannot recognize input near 'show' '<EOF>' > '<EOF>' in ddl statement > > > hive -f option works though . Has anyone else faced this ? > > Sam William > sa...@stumbleupon.com > > > >