Right now Hive does not do data validation when loading data into a table.
If you load some wrong data which does not conform the table
definition, queries on that table may fail or results are meaningless.
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Pavan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Hive Community,
> I've been trying to see if Hive (0.5.0) supports data type validation when
> loading data into it. My initial experiments show me that if it is of wrong
> data type (vs the table definition), the values seem to be NULL. Is it
> correct?
> Can anyone point to useful resources with respect to this?
> ~
> Best,
> Pavan
>
>
