Can you please try

 select foo,bar from pokes;

?



On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Ray Duong<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Hive Users.
>
> I'm a newbie to hive so this might be a dumb configuration issue.  I am
> trying to run Hive on Amazon EC2 and getting an error when attempting to
> follow the sample script from the Hive wiki site.  I'm able to create and
> load the data but not able to read the content of the file.  Was there a
> step that I missed during the Hive startup?
>
> Thanks,
> -ray
>
>
> Logging in to host ec2-75-101-208-214.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
>
>          __|  __|_  )  Fedora 8
>          _|  (     /    32-bit
>         ___|\___|___|
>
>  Welcome to an EC2 Public Image
>                        :-)
>     Base
>
> [r...@domu-12-31-39-00-89-56 ~]# ls
> ec2-ami-tools-1.3-19974.noarch.rpm
>
> cd /usr/local/hadoop-0.19.0/contrib/hive
>
> [r...@domu-12-31-39-00-89-56 hive]# bin/hive
>
> hive> CREATE TABLE pokes (foo INT, bar STRING);
> OK
> Time taken: 12.545 seconds
> hive> CREATE TABLE invites (foo INT, bar STRING) PARTITIONED BY (ds STRING);
> OK
> Time taken: 0.129 seconds
> hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH './examples/files/kv1.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE
> pokes;
> Copying data from
> file:/usr/local/hadoop-0.19.0/contrib/hive/examples/files/kv1.txt
> Loading data to table pokes
> OK
> Time taken: 1.963 seconds
> hive> select * from pokes;
> FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:7 cannot recognize input '*'
>
>

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