Hive's float datatype is not supported by the Hive JDBC driver --------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1861 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1861 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Drivers Affects Versions: 0.5.0 Environment: Create a Hive table containing a float column. Then using the Hive JDBC driver execute a Hive query that selects data from this table. An error is then encountered. Reporter: Guy le Mar ERROR: DDL specifying type float which has not been defined java.lang.RuntimeException: specifying type float which has not been defined at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.FieldType(thrift_grammar.java:1879) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Field(thrift_grammar.java:1545) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.FieldList(thrift_grammar.java:1501) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Struct(thrift_grammar.java:1171) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.TypeDefinition(thrift_grammar.java:497) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Definition(thrift_grammar.java:439) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Start(thrift_grammar.java:101) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.DynamicSerDe.initialize(DynamicSerDe.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveResultSet.initDynamicSerde(HiveResultSet.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveResultSet.<init>(HiveResultSet.java:74) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveStatement.executeQuery(HiveStatement.java:178) at com.quest.orahive.HiveJdbcClient.main(HiveJdbcClient.java:117) org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: specifying type float which has not been defined at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.DynamicSerDe.initialize(DynamicSerDe.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveResultSet.initDynamicSerde(HiveResultSet.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveResultSet.<init>(HiveResultSet.java:74) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveStatement.executeQuery(HiveStatement.java:178) at com.quest.orahive.HiveJdbcClient.main(HiveJdbcClient.java:117) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: specifying type float which has not been defined at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.FieldType(thrift_grammar.java:1879) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Field(thrift_grammar.java:1545) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.FieldList(thrift_grammar.java:1501) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Struct(thrift_grammar.java:1171) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.TypeDefinition(thrift_grammar.java:497) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Definition(thrift_grammar.java:439) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.thrift_grammar.Start(thrift_grammar.java:101) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.DynamicSerDe.initialize(DynamicSerDe.java:102) ... 4 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.