Hi all,
Thanks for the suggestion Gopal. It turns out the error occurs on
both "SELECT *" and "SELECT col" queries. The only sort of query that
seems safe are those with aggregations or other things that cause them
to be run as mr tasks (e.g. "SELECT SUM(price_f) FROM
my_external_table").
>query the external table using HiveCLI (e.g. SELECT * FROM
>my_external_table), HiveCLI prints out a table with the correct
If the error is always on a "select *", then the issue might be the SerDe's
handling of included columns.
Check what you get for
colNames =
