I will look into less conditionals. Thank you for the insight.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Frederick Oko<[email protected]> wrote:
> That error had been thrown in cases where a preceding phase of the Hive plan
> produced no results (yet it did find data to scan) which in your case would
> be the filter conditions ocurring in the first of 2 MR -- r u certain there
> r records which would match your day and game_id conditions? I can't
> validate right now whether that behavior has been made more user friendly.
>
> On Jul 8, 2009 5:10 PM, "RSD" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> hive> describe game_start;
>
>
>                          recordtime    string
> user_id int
> session_id      string
> host    string
> release string
> source  string
> ip      string
> ip_country      string
> game_id int
> challenge       int
> suggestion_rank int
> language        string
> day     string
> hive> select a.game_id, count(distinct(a.user_id)), count(1) from
> game_start a where a.day >= '2009-06-01' and a.day < '2009-06-03' and
> (a.game_id = 501 or a.game_id = 502 or a.game_id = 504 or a.game_id =
> 505 or a.game_id = 563) group by a.game_id;
> Total MapReduce jobs = 2
> Starting Job = job_200907071612_0568, Tracking URL =
> http://somehost:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_200907071612_0568
> Kill Command = /home/analytics/hadoop/dist/current/bin/hadoop job
> -Dmapred.job.tracker=somehost:9001 -kill job_200907071612_0568
> ...
> Ended Job = job_200907071612_0568
>
> Job Submission failed with exception 'Input path doesnt exist :
>
> hdfs://somehost:9000/tmp/hive-someuser/183603784.10002'
>
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver
>
> there is a local directory /tmp/hive-someuser  (and in
> /tmp/someuser/hive.log is where i am logging)...
>
> is there something wrong with the syntax of the query?
>

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