Kathleen Ting created SQOOP-489:
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             Summary: Cannot define partition keys for Hive tables create 
through sqoop
                 Key: SQOOP-489
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-489
             Project: Sqoop
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.4.1-incubating
            Reporter: Kathleen Ting


By enabling the "--table" option, Sqoop includes every column in the table in 
the create table query, and by enabling the "--hive-partition-key" option, 
Sqoop blindly appends the "partitioned by" clause. Now if you specify one of 
columns in the table in the "--hive-partition-key", this will cause a syntax 
error in Hive.

For example, if we have a table 'FOO' that has columns 'I' and 'J':

sqoop create-hive-table --table FOO ...

will generate the following Hive query:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `FOO` ( `I` STRING, `J` STRING)

Now if we add "--hive-partition-key I" to the command, Sqoop generates the 
following query:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `FOO` ( `I` STRING, `J` STRING) PARTITIONED BY (I 
STRING)

The problem is that since 'I' is defined twice (once in CRATE TABLE and once in 
PARTITIONED BY), this is a syntax error in Hive.

This correct query would be something like:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `FOO` (`J` STRING) PARTITIONED BY (I STRING)



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