I think that comment is out of date; you can create a map from Hive QL using the map function:
select map('fred',40,'barney',50) from ...
JVS
On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:43 AM, shimi wrote:
In the doc
(http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/Tutorial#Map.28Associative_Arrays.29_Operations)
it is written that Map (Associative Arrays) can only be created
programmatically currently.
Does anyone know where can I find more details about it?
Shimi
