Thank you, Chandeep. Yes, my first problem solved. How about the second one? Is there any way to append an element to an existing array?
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Chandeep Singh <c...@chandeep.com> wrote: > If you only want the array while you’re querying table1 your example > should work. If you want to add AB to the table you’ll probably need to > create a new table by selecting everything you need from table1. > > hive> select * from table1 limit 1; > OK > temp1 temp2 temp3 > > hive> select f1, array(f2, f3) AS AB from table1 limit 1; > OK > temp1 [“temp2”,"temp3"] > > > On Mar 13, 2016, at 12:33 AM, Rex X <dnsr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How to make the following work? > > 1. combine columns A and B to make one array as a new column AB. Both > column A and B are string types. > > select > string_columnA, > string_columnB, > *array(string_columnA, string_columnB) *as AB > from Table1; > > 2. append columnA to an existing array-type column B > > select > string_columnA, > array_columnB, > array_flatmerge(string_columnA, array_columnB) as AB > from Table2; > > In fact, I should say "set" instead of "array" above, since I expect no > duplicates. > > Any idea? > > >
