Mariano Dominguez created HIVE-10471: ----------------------------------------
Summary: Derive column definitions from a raw Parquet data file Key: HIVE-10471 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10471 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Mariano Dominguez This feature will allow Hive to create Parquet-backed tables the same way Cloudera's Impala[1] does: CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ingest_existing_files LIKE PARQUET '/user/etl/destination/datafile1.dat' STORED AS PARQUET LOCATION '/user/etl/destination'; CREATE TABLE columns_from_data_file LIKE PARQUET '/user/etl/destination/datafile1.dat' STORED AS PARQUET; [1] http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/cloudera-impala/latest/topics/impala_parquet.html#parquet_ddl_unique_1 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)