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Anthony Hsu commented on HIVE-6835:
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If TBLPROPERTIES were copied to the partition, then you still might have the
problem of the table-level Avro schema and the partition-level Avro schema
getting out of sync, which might lead to ClassCastExceptions. The Avro schema
should always use the latest table-level schema, whether it is stored in
TBLPROPERTIES or SERDEPROPERTIES.
The root of the problem is if an Avro schema somehow ends up in the partition
properties, these could get out of sync with the table-level properties. The
Avro SerDe should always be using the table-level schema, and that's why my
change was to (1) make the table-level properties available to the serde, and
(2) change the Avro SerDe to use the table-level properties when present.
> 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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