Sorry guys, I figured this out. We have a shell script that sets the env variables and then calls the standard hive-0.8.0/bin/hive "$@" . The problem was that the quotes around $@ were missing and the hive executable was just getting the first word .
It was just my bad. Thanks, Sam On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Carl Steinbach wrote: > Hi Sam, > > I tried running this against the hive-0.8.0 release tarball and did not > encounter any problems. > Is it possible that you have some old JARs or shell scripts hanging around > from a previous Hive install? > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Sam William <sa...@stumbleupon.com> wrote: > We recently upgraded to Hive-0.8.0 and noticed that all queries fail when > run as hive -e <query> with the error , > > > sampd@face:~$ 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 > > > > Sam William sa...@stumbleupon.com
