Chaoyu Tang created HIVE-12218: ---------------------------------- Summary: Unable to create a like table for an hbase backed table Key: HIVE-12218 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12218 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Query Processor Affects Versions: 1.2.1 Reporter: Chaoyu Tang Assignee: Chaoyu Tang
For an HBase backed table: {code} CREATE TABLE hbasetbl (key string, state string, country string, country_id int) STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( "hbase.columns.mapping" = "info:state,info:country,info:country_id" ); {code} Create its like table using query such as create table hbasetbl_like like hbasetbl; It fails with error: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: must specify an InputFormat class -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)