caofangkun created HIVE-4032: -------------------------------- Summary: Inserting data into Hive table from a query, when the query is a partitioned table and select * ,will generate a SemanticException Key: HIVE-4032 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4032 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Query Processor Affects Versions: 0.10.0 Reporter: caofangkun Priority: Minor
Inserting data into Hive table from a query , when the query is : select * from a_partitioned_table, will throw a SemanticException . It seems that "*" contains the virtual partition columns. drop table if exists zr_test; create table if not exists zr_test (key string, value string) partitioned by (dt string); drop table if exists zr_test_1; create table if not exists zr_test_1 (key string, value string) partitioned by (dt string); --Query One explain insert into table zr_test partition (dt='20130217') select key, value from zr_test_1 where dt='20130217'; --Query Two explain insert into table zr_test partition (dt='20130217') select * from zr_test_1 where dt='20130217'; Ouery One works well, bug Query Two failed with the following information: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 2:18 Cannot insert into target table because column number/types are different ''20130217'': Table insclause-0 has 2 columns, but query has 3 columns. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira