I tried to create a table that would use a csv serde. There were various problems with it, primarily in that I couldn't figure out how to specify the path to the serde (whether I indicate the serde location either locally or on HDFS) there were subsequent errors about not finding the serde, even though the paths were correct).
So I decided to drop the table since it wasn't working...but the serde error that is causing these problems to begin with prevents me from dropping the table due to a serde-doesn't-exist error. Yeah, duh, that's the problem in the first place. This is an acknowledged problem, as indicated here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3392 ...but I don't understand from that page how to get around the problem. There is a lengthy discussion, but it's unclear how to actually drop the darn table. In fact, that page suggests the problem is officially classified as "won't be fixed". Note, this problem also prevents me from renaming the table via "alter". I don't know what to do at this point. Any ideas? ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com music.keithwiley.com "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." -- Mark Twain ________________________________________________________________________________
