so i figured i try and set hive.metastore.warehouse.dir=s3a://bucket/hive and see what would happen.
running this query: insert overwrite table omniture.hit_data_aws partition (date_key=20161113) select * from staging.hit_data_aws_ext_20161113 limit 1; yields this error: Failed with exception java.io.IOException: rename for src path: s3a://trulia-dwr-cluster-dev/hive/omniture.db/hit_data_aws/date_key=20161113/.hive- staging_hive_2016-11-15_04-57-52_085_7825126612479617470-1/-ext-10000/000000_0 to dest path:s3a://trulia-dwr-cluster-dev/hive/omniture.db/hit_data_aws/date_key=20161113/000000_0 returned false FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask. java.io.IOException: rename for src path: s3a://trulia-dwr-cluster-dev/hive/omniture.db/hit_data_aws/date_key=20161113/.hive-staging_hive_2016-11-15_04-57-52_085_7825126612479617470-1/-ext-10000/000000_0 to dest path:s3a://trulia-dwr-cluster-dev/hive/omniture.db/hit_data_aws/date_key=20161113/000000_0 returned false is there any workaround? i'm running hive 2.1.0 and hadoop version 2.6.0-cdh5.7.1 . thanks, Stephen.