From your dump results it looks like the only value on the relation is a tuple. 
So it is trying to use that tuple as the row key and there are no other fields 
to use as columns. 

On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:00, marko <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I successfully read from HBase table using:
> 
> table = load 'hbase://temp' using 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.hbase.HBaseStorage('cf:c1, cf:c2', '-loadKey 
> true') as (key:chararray, c1:bytearray, c2:bytearray)
> 
> I used UDF to parse column data and convert it into doubles from bytearrays.
> 
> I do some processing and manage to dump the results:
> dump results;
> 
> which prints:
> ((product1-20131231-20100101,1.5,1.5))
> ((product2-20131231-20100101,2.5,2.5))
> 
> However, I cannot write these results into a newly created empty HBase table:
> copy = store results into 'hbase://results' using 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.hbase.HBaseStorage('cf:res1, cf:res2');
> 
> I have also tried .. store results into 'results' using .., but it doesn't 
> help.
> I am using pig-0.11.0.
> 
> I suspect I should do some sort of casting into bytearrays using UDF, like I 
> did when reading the table.
> 
> This is the exception I get:
> java.io.IOException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No columns to insert
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.runPipeline(PigGenericMapReduce.java:470)
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.processOnePackageOutput(PigGenericMapReduce.java:433)
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigGenericMapReduce.java:413)
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigGenericMapReduce.java:257)
>    at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer.run(Reducer.java:176)
>    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.runNewReducer(ReduceTask.java:650)
>    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:418)
>    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:260)
> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No columns to insert
>    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.validatePut(HTable.java:970)
>    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.doPut(HTable.java:763)
>    at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.put(HTable.java:749)
>    at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableOutputFormat$TableRecordWriter.write(TableOutputFormat.java:123)
>    at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableOutputFormat$TableRecordWriter.write(TableOutputFormat.java:84)
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.hbase.HBaseStorage.putNext(HBaseStorage.java:885)
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigOutputFormat$PigRecordWriter.write(PigOutputFormat.java:139)
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigOutputFormat$PigRecordWriter.write(PigOutputFormat.java:98)
>    at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$NewTrackingRecordWriter.write(ReduceTask.java:588)
>    at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskInputOutputContext.write(TaskInputOutputContext.java:80)
>    at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.runPipeline(PigGenericMapReduce.java:468)
> 
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Marko
> 

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