Hi Manhee, You don't need to do "load" for an external table. You already specified the location of the external table in the "create external table" command, so you can directly use that external table.
Zheng On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Manhee Jo<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Zheng, > > I've tried to load a sample file after creating an external table like > below. > > hive> create external table extab (key int, val string) > > row format delimited fields terminated by '\t' > > lines terminated by '\n' > > location '/user/hive/warehouse/test/'; > > Here, /user/hive/warehouse/test contains an HDFS file which I am going to > load > into table extab. this was OK. On load, though, > > hive> load data inpath '/user/hive/warehouse/test/kv1.txt' > > overwrite into table extab; > > I found an error like below > > FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 2:17 Path is not legal > '/user/hive/warehouse/test/kv1.txt': > Move from: hdfs://vm2:9000/user/hive/warehouse/test/kv1.txt to: > /user/hive/warehouse/test/ is not valid. > Please check that values for params "default.fs.name" and > "hive.metastore.warehouse.dir" do not onflict. > > I've changed directories different ones, but to no avail. Can you suggest > any solutions? > > By the way, is "default.fs.name" right? I could find "fs.default.name" but > not "default.fs.name". > > Thank you, > Manhee > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zheng Shao" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:49 AM > Subject: Re: loading data from HDFS or local file to > > > If the huge file is already on HDFS (load data WITHOUT local), Hive > will just *move* the file into the table (NOTE: that means user won't > be able to see the file in its original directory afterwards) > > If you don't want that to happen, you might want to use "CREATE > EXTERNAL TABLE .... LOCATION "/user/myname/myfiledir";" > > If the huge file is on local file system, you will have to use (load > data WITH local), and Hive will copy the file. > > > Zheng > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Manhee Jo<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> What really happens when a huge file (e.g. some tens of TB) is "LOADed >> DATA >> (LOCAL) INPATH ... >> INTO TABLE"? Does hive need to scan the entire file before processing >> anything even very simple (e.g. select)? >> If so, are there any solutions to decrease the number of disk access? Is >> partitioning a way to do it? >> >> Many Thanks, >> Manhee >> > > > > -- > Yours, > Zheng > > > -- Yours, Zheng
