Thank you, that was helpful!
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:02 PM, j.barrett Strausser < j.barrett.straus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fairly sure you just forgot the 'Stored As' clause. > > The below works for me on .11 > > CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE avrotab > PARTITIONED BY(dq_dummy int) > ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' > STORED AS > INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' > OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' > LOCATION '/user/user1/avrodata' > > TBLPROPERTIES ( 'avro.schema.literal'='{ > "namespace": "com.poweredanalytics.serializer", > "name": "help_hive_serializer", > "type": "record", > "fields": [ > { "name":"dummy", "type":"int" }, > { "name":"other", "type":["int","null"] } > ] } > ') > ; > > > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Sravya Tirukkovalur > <sra...@cloudera.com>wrote: > >> This command fails: >> >> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE avrotab >> PARTITIONED BY(dummy int) >> LOCATION '/user/user1/avrodata' >> ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' >> INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' >> OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' >> TBLPROPERTIES ( 'avro.schema.url'='file:///tmp/data.avsc'); >> >> Error: >> Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: ParseException line >> 1:131 missing EOF at 'ROW' near ''/user/user1/avrodata'' >> (state=42000,code=40000) >> >> Not sure what I am missing. Can anyone see any obvious mistake? >> >> Thanks! >> -- >> Sravya Tirukkovalur >> > > > > -- > > > https://github.com/bearrito > @deepbearrito > -- Sravya Tirukkovalur