Hi Pavel, I've not tried it with Cyrillic but create table does fail in Hive 11 if you use Chinese characters in either the table name or column names. I assume Cyrillic will fail as well. From what I've seen, any sort of Unicode data is ok in the actual values themselves just not in the DDL.
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Павел Мезенцев <pa...@mezentsev.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I have a question. > Does hive support unicode characters in table name and column name? > Is any chance to create and manipulate with table, where table name and > columns name are in russian > > create table тест { > поле1 STRING, > поле2 STRING > } > > > Best regards, > Mezentsev Pavel >