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Reuben Kuhnert commented on HIVE-13231: --------------------------------------- So it looks like it ~does work if you have {{hive.insert.into.multilevel.dirs}} turned on: {code} class MoveTask { private void moveFile(Path sourcePath, Path targetPath, boolean isDfsDir) { ... if (HiveConf.getBoolVar(conf, HiveConf.ConfVars.HIVE_INSERT_INTO_MULTILEVEL_DIRS)) { deletePath = createTargetPath(targetPath, fs); } ... } } {code} In action: {code} (Using gerrit/cdh5-1.1.0_dev) 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> set hive.insert.into.multilevel.dirs; +----------------------------------------+--+ | set | +----------------------------------------+--+ | hive.insert.into.multilevel.dirs=true | +----------------------------------------+--+ 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> create table shouldwork location '/user/hive/warehouse/x/y/z/shouldwork' as select * from another; arehouse/x/y/z/shouldwork' as select * from another; INFO : Compiling command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131616_2bbad703-76fe-4621-809e-11a16ee72182): create table shouldwork location '/user/hive/warehouse/x/y/z/shouldwork' as select * from another INFO : Semantic Analysis Completed INFO : Returning Hive schema: Schema(fieldSchemas:[FieldSchema(name:another.id, type:int, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:another.name, type:string, comment:null)], properties:null) INFO : Completed compiling command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131616_2bbad703-76fe-4621-809e-11a16ee72182); Time taken: 1.023 seconds INFO : Concurrency mode is disabled, not creating a lock manager INFO : Executing command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131616_2bbad703-76fe-4621-809e-11a16ee72182): create table shouldwork location '/user/hive/warehouse/x/y/z/shouldwork' as select * from another INFO : Query ID = sircodesalot_20160105131616_2bbad703-76fe-4621-809e-11a16ee72182 INFO : Total jobs = 3 INFO : Launching Job 1 out of 3 INFO : Starting task [Stage-1:MAPRED] in serial mode INFO : Number of reduce tasks is set to 0 since there's no reduce operator INFO : Job running in-process (local Hadoop) INFO : 2016-01-05 13:16:43,251 Stage-1 map = 100%, reduce = 0% INFO : Ended Job = job_local1497036142_0001 INFO : Starting task [Stage-7:CONDITIONAL] in serial mode INFO : Stage-4 is selected by condition resolver. INFO : Stage-3 is filtered out by condition resolver. INFO : Stage-5 is filtered out by condition resolver. INFO : Starting task [Stage-4:MOVE] in serial mode INFO : Moving data to: file:/user/hive/warehouse/.hive-staging_hive_2016-01-05_13-16-39_477_4080666378917536585-1/-ext-10001 from file:/user/hive/warehouse/.hive-staging_hive_2016-01-05_13-16-39_477_4080666378917536585-1/-ext-10003 INFO : Starting task [Stage-0:MOVE] in serial mode INFO : Moving data to: /user/hive/warehouse/x/y/z/shouldwork from file:/user/hive/warehouse/.hive-staging_hive_2016-01-05_13-16-39_477_4080666378917536585-1/-ext-10001 INFO : Starting task [Stage-8:DDL] in serial mode INFO : Starting task [Stage-2:STATS] in serial mode INFO : Table default.shouldwork stats: [numFiles=1, numRows=2, totalSize=25, rawDataSize=23] INFO : MapReduce Jobs Launched: INFO : Stage-Stage-1: HDFS Read: 0 HDFS Write: 0 SUCCESS INFO : Total MapReduce CPU Time Spent: 0 msec INFO : Completed executing command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131616_2bbad703-76fe-4621-809e-11a16ee72182); Time taken: 20.601 seconds INFO : OK No rows affected (21.644 seconds) 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> select * from shouldwork; select * from shouldwork; INFO : Compiling command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131717_4cd8dc3b-a732-4133-86c2-7261d567b6bf): select * from shouldwork INFO : Semantic Analysis Completed INFO : Returning Hive schema: Schema(fieldSchemas:[FieldSchema(name:shouldwork.id, type:int, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:shouldwork.name, type:string, comment:null)], properties:null) INFO : Completed compiling command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131717_4cd8dc3b-a732-4133-86c2-7261d567b6bf); Time taken: 0.215 seconds INFO : Concurrency mode is disabled, not creating a lock manager INFO : Executing command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131717_4cd8dc3b-a732-4133-86c2-7261d567b6bf): select * from shouldwork INFO : Completed executing command(queryId=sircodesalot_20160105131717_4cd8dc3b-a732-4133-86c2-7261d567b6bf); Time taken: 0.0 seconds INFO : OK +----------------+------------------+--+ | shouldwork.id | shouldwork.name | +----------------+------------------+--+ | 1 | something | | 2 | otherthing | +----------------+------------------+--+ {code} Although it makes sense that this property is not set by default, it does make sense to notify the user that a property exists to allow automatic nested directory creation. > Show helpful error message on failure to create nested table in nested > directory > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-13231 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13231 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Hive > Reporter: Reuben Kuhnert > Assignee: Reuben Kuhnert > Priority: Minor > Attachments: CDH-37508.01.patch > > > cannot store data in a directory whose parent doesn't exist, even though the > target dir does have an existing ancestor on HDFS. This occurs when trying to > perform {{create table <location>}}. > {code} > 0: jdbc:hive2://10.17.81.192:10000/default> create table test3 location > '/user/hive/data/yshi/nonexisting/test3' as select * from sample_07; > Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code > 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask (state=08S01,code=1) > Error message: > 2015-10-29 19:04:46,323 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task: Failed > with exception Unable to rename: > hdfs://host-10-17-81-192.coe.cloudera.com:8020/user/hive/warehouse/.hive-staging_hive_2015-10-29_19-04-08_375_5385987873542863570-3/-ext-10001 > to: /user/hive/data/yshi/nonexisting/test3 > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Unable to rename: > hdfs://host-10-17-81-192.coe.cloudera.com:8020/user/hive/warehouse/.hive-staging_hive_2015-10-29_19-04-08_375_5385987873542863570-3/-ext-10001 > to: /user/hive/data/yshi/nonexisting/test3 > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask.moveFile(MoveTask.java:101) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask.execute(MoveTask.java:209) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:153) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:85) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1554) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1321) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1139) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:962) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:957) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.runInternal(SQLOperation.java:144) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.access$000(SQLOperation.java:68) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation$1$1.run(SQLOperation.java:199) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) > at > org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1642) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure.doAs(HadoopShimsSecure.java:502) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation$1.run(SQLOperation.java:212) > at > java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)