-Re: Automatic creation of Hive output table based on SELECT statement
its a not via an API but what if you experimented with "create table XXX as
select ..... where 1=0" followed by "desc XXX".
Maybe something like that can tide you over until a more programmatic way
comes to light?
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Sean Colgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for a way to automatically generate an output table schema
> based on the input and query. Basically, a given input schema and SELECT
> statement produce a deterministic result schema. And Hive will complain if
> a given output table does not have a matching schema. Like so:
> FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 3:23 Cannot insert into
> target table because column number/types are different 'test_out': Table
> insclause-0 has 1 columns, but query has 3 columns.
> I am developing a process that will accept input data with an arbitrary
> known schema, and an HQL SELECT statement to query that data. I'm looking
> for a way to automatically generate the correct output table schema. I'm
> starting to poke through the code in SemanticAnalyzer.java (which generates
> the above error string) to see if I can use something in there. But I
> certainly welcome any thoughts or suggestions on this topic.
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