Suresh, By default, the partition column name has to be appear in HDFS directory structure.
e.g. /user/hive/warehouse/<table name>/<partition col name>=<partition col value>/data1.txt /user/hive/warehouse/<table name>/<partition col name>=<partition col value>/data2.txt On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Suresh Krishnappa <suresh.krishna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I have the following directory structure in hdfs > > /test/a/ > /test/a/1.avro > /test/a/2.avro > /test/a/b/ > /test/a/b/3.avro > > I created an external HIVE table using Avro Serde and added /test/a as a > partition to this table. > > I am not able to run a select query. Always getting the error 'not a file' > on '/test/a/b' > > Is this by design, a bug or am I missing some configuration? > I am using HIVE 0.10 > > Thanks > Suresh >