Hi Guys, We have an avro backed production table bucketed by a column and it works fine with the old Hive = 0.7 on chd3u2.
Now we have moved to Hive 0.12 on HDP 2.0 and are getting bucketing issues with this table. Below is the create table statement CREATE TABLE test_bucketing PARTITIONED BY (year INT, month INT, day INT, hour INT) CLUSTERED BY (akey) INTO 32 BUCKETS ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( 'schema.literal'='{ "type" : "record", "name" : "NgEventETLSimple", "namespace" : "com.ngmoco.ngpipes.etl.events", "fields" : [ { "name" : "akey", "type" : "string" } ] }') STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' and this is the error we are seeing FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Bucket columns akey is not part of the table columns ([FieldSchema(name:error_error_error_error_error_error_error, type:string, comment:from deserializer), FieldSchema(name:cannot_determine_schema, type:string, comment:from deserializer), FieldSchema(name:check, type:string, comment:from deserializer), FieldSchema(name:schema, type:string, comment:from deserializer), FieldSchema(name:url, type:string, comment:from deserializer), FieldSchema(name:and, type:string, comment:from deserializer), FieldSchema(name:literal, type:string, comment:from deserializer)] As you can see the akey is mentioned as a part of the table definition, however it still complains that akey is not part of the table definition. I can confirm that independently the avro serde works fine [if we drop the bucketing clause] and independently bucketing works fine on a test table [without avro serde]. *However together bucketing for an avro backed table is giving us issues on Hive 0.12* Any idea what is going on? Any help/pointers would be useful. Sagar PS - The actual table in production has way more columns but I don't think that is relevant for the issue at hand here.