There is an open jira ticket on this. There is a hard coded limit but it could be raised with some mostly minor code changes.
One of the bigger problems is that hive stores the definition of a column in JDBC "column" and for some databases larger nested structs can case issues. Edward On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Connell, Chuck <chuck.conn...@nuance.com> wrote: > I am trying to create a large Hive table, with many columns and deeply > nested structs. It is failing with java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: > 10. > > > > Before I spend a lot of time debugging my table declaration, is there some > limit here I should know about? Max number of columns? Max depth of struct > nesting? > > > > Thanks, > > Chuck > >