Yep, that worked.
As suggested by Nitin, LATERAL VIEW is a helpful too, and here's the syntax
:
SELECT Id, Name, App, Byte, Packet FROM testApp2
LATERAL VIEW stack(2,AppWeb, ByteWeb, PacketWeb, AppP2P, ByteP2P,
PacketP2P) T AS App,Byte,Packet ;
Thanks for your help guys,
Mathieu
2013/1/10 Dean Wampler <dean.wamp...@thinkbiganalytics.com>
> Try "as (alias1, alias2, ...)"
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Mathieu Despriee <mdespr...@octo.com>wrote:
>
>> Not working either :
>>
>> SELECT stack(2,AppWeb, ByteWeb, PacketWeb, AppP2P, ByteP2P, PacketP2P) AS
>> App,Byte,Packet FROM testApp2;
>> > FAILED: SemanticException 1:76 Only a single expression in the SELECT
>> clause is supported with UDTF's. Error encountered near token 'Byte'
>>
>> I tried to quote the aliases or to use array-style with no luck.
>>
>> Is there any description of hive grammar somewhere ?
>> I only found this doc :
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-select.html, but "
>> select_expr" is not described ....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/1/10 Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com>
>>
>>> I never ran into this kind of problem but can you try select as A,B,C
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Mathieu Despriee
>>> <mdespr...@octo.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> SELECT stack(2,AppWeb, ByteWeb, PacketWeb, AppP2P, ByteP2P, PacketP2P)
>>>> AS A FROM testApp2;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/1/10 Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>> can you provide your query ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Mathieu Despriee <mdespr...@octo.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to use the stack function, described here :
>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-udf.html#LanguageManualUDF-BuiltinTableGeneratingFunctions%2528UDTF%2529
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hive asks me to provide the multiple aliases for the resulting
>>>>>> columns ("The number of aliases in the AS clause does not match the
>>>>>> number
>>>>>> of colums output by the UDTF, expected 3 aliases but got 1").
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the syntax to provide multiple aliases ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Mathieu
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Nitin Pawar
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nitin Pawar
>>>
>>
>>
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