Hi Szehon, I have following records in my File, I want to load the cust table such a way that the records are partitioned based on profession
4000001,Kristina,Chung,55,Pilot 4000002,Paige,Chen,74,Teacher 4000003,Sherri,Melton,34,Firefighter 4000004,Gretchen,Hill,66,Computer hardware engineer 4000005,Karen,Puckett,74,Lawyer 4000006,Patrick,Song,42,Veterinarian 4000007,Elsie,Hamilton,43,Pilot 4000008,Hazel,Bender,63,Carpenter 4000009,Malcolm,Wagner,39,Artist The cust_prof values can be Pilot,Teacher etc. The command load data local inpath './custs' into table custs partition(cust_prof=1); doesnt work that way On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Szehon Ho <sze...@cloudera.com> wrote: > In this kind of insert where you mention partition, you need to specify > which partition. > > Example load data local inpath './custs' into table custs > partition(cust_prof=1); > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Rahul Channe <drah...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> I have created the following partitioned table in hive >> >> create table custs ( cust_id int, first_name String,last_name >> String,cust_age int ) partitioned by ( cust_prof String) row format >> delimited fields terminated by ','; >> >> when I am trying to load data into the table, I am getting error >> >> load data local inpath './custs' into table custs partition(cust_prof); >> >> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: cust_prof not found in >> table's partition spec: {cust_prof=null} >> > >