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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on HIVE-6835:
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I would also like to know answer for Xuefu's questions. It will be good to
document what kind of schema evolution is supported by Avro Serde and more
importantly what kinds are *not* supported.
> Reading of partitioned Avro data fails if partition schema does not match
> table schema
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>
> Key: HIVE-6835
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6835
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0
> Reporter: Anthony Hsu
> Assignee: Anthony Hsu
> Attachments: HIVE-6835.1.patch, HIVE-6835.2.patch, HIVE-6835.3.patch
>
>
> To reproduce:
> {code}
> create table testarray (a array<string>);
> load data local inpath '/home/ahsu/test/array.txt' into table testarray;
> # create partitioned Avro table with one array column
> create table avroarray partitioned by (y string) row format serde
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' with serdeproperties
> ('avro.schema.literal'='{"namespace":"test","name":"avroarray","type":
> "record", "fields": [ { "name":"a", "type":{"type":"array","items":"string"}
> } ] }') STORED as INPUTFORMAT
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat';
> insert into table avroarray partition(y=1) select * from testarray;
> # add an int column with a default value of 0
> alter table avroarray set serde
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' with
> serdeproperties('avro.schema.literal'='{"namespace":"test","name":"avroarray","type":
> "record", "fields": [ {"name":"intfield","type":"int","default":0},{
> "name":"a", "type":{"type":"array","items":"string"} } ] }');
> # fails with ClassCastException
> select * from avroarray;
> {code}
> The select * fails with:
> {code}
> Failed with exception java.io.IOException:java.lang.ClassCastException:
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.StandardListObjectInspector
> cannot be cast to
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.PrimitiveObjectInspector
> {code}
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