Try using the ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION syntax.

On May 29, 2012, at 11:20 PM, Russell Jurney wrote:

> How do I load data from S3 into Hive using Amazon EMR?  I've booted a small 
> cluster, and I want to load a 3-column TSV file from Pig into a table like 
> this:
> 
> create table from_to (from_address string, to_address string, dt string);
> 
> When I run something like this: 
> 
> load data inpath 's3n://rjurney_public_web/from_to_date' into table from_to;
> 
> I get errors: 
> 
> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 1:17 Invalid path 
> 's3n://rjurney_public_web/from_to_date': only "file" or "hdfs" file systems 
> accepted. s3n file system is not supported.
> 
> There is no distcp on the master node of my EMR cluster, so I can't copy it 
> over.  I've read the documentation... and so far after a day of trying, I 
> can't load data into HIVE via EMR.
> 
> What am I missing?  Thanks!
> -- 
> Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jur...@gmail.com datasyndrome.com

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