My guess is that the add jar didn't contain a class with the same exact name of your SerDe.
It would probably help to see the output of your command with logging hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console -e " your command; " On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:41 AM, ankit bhatnagar <abhatna...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > Whats the best way to add custom serde jar. > > looks like add jar says added successfully and I am able to list that jar > in hive interface > > However Create table fails to find the class. > > Thanks > Ankit >
