Hi Mark, I am using external table in HIVE. This is how I am adding the partition
> alter table <mytable> add partition (pt=1) location '/test/a/'; I am able to run HIVE queries only if '/test/a/b' folder is deleted. How can I retain this folder structure and still issue queries? Thanks Suresh On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Mark Grover <grover.markgro...@gmail.com>wrote: > Suresh, > By default, the partition column name has to be appear in HDFS > directory structure. > > e.g. > /user/hive/warehouse/<table name>/<partition col name>=<partition col > value>/data1.txt > /user/hive/warehouse/<table name>/<partition col name>=<partition col > value>/data2.txt > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Suresh Krishnappa > <suresh.krishna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have the following directory structure in hdfs > > > > /test/a/ > > /test/a/1.avro > > /test/a/2.avro > > /test/a/b/ > > /test/a/b/3.avro > > > > I created an external HIVE table using Avro Serde and added /test/a as a > > partition to this table. > > > > I am not able to run a select query. Always getting the error 'not a > file' > > on '/test/a/b' > > > > Is this by design, a bug or am I missing some configuration? > > I am using HIVE 0.10 > > > > Thanks > > Suresh > > >
