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Gopal V edited comment on HIVE-14623 at 8/24/16 9:06 PM:
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Why not jump on "IMPORT" instead of CREATE?
Instead of reading the _metadata/ folder, it could go to the self describing
input format.
was (Author: gopalv):
Why not jump on "IMPORT" instead of CREATE?
> add CREATE TABLE FROM FILE command for self-describing formats
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> Key: HIVE-14623
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14623
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
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> For self-describing formats like ORC, it should be possible to create a table
> from a file without explicitly specifying the schema. It would be useful for
> debugging, but also for all kinds of ad-hoc activities with data (and I bet
> someone will also use it for ETL, sadly ;)).
> The schema should be established in metastore as the final schema for the
> table; it should not be an attached+derived schema, like for Avro.
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