Yea, it was just an example, as I didnt know your schema.  Then you can do
(cust_prof='Pilot') or (cust_prof='Teacher').  Does that work for you?


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Rahul Channe <drah...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Szehon,
>
> I have following records in my File, I want to load the cust table such a
> way that the records are partitioned based on profession
>
> 4000001,Kristina,Chung,55,Pilot
> 4000002,Paige,Chen,74,Teacher
> 4000003,Sherri,Melton,34,Firefighter
> 4000004,Gretchen,Hill,66,Computer hardware engineer
> 4000005,Karen,Puckett,74,Lawyer
> 4000006,Patrick,Song,42,Veterinarian
> 4000007,Elsie,Hamilton,43,Pilot
> 4000008,Hazel,Bender,63,Carpenter
> 4000009,Malcolm,Wagner,39,Artist
>
>
> The cust_prof values can be Pilot,Teacher etc.
>
> The command  load data local inpath './custs' into table custs
> partition(cust_prof=1); doesnt work that way
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Szehon Ho <sze...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
>> In this kind of insert where you mention partition, you need to specify
>> which partition.
>>
>> Example load data local inpath './custs' into table custs
>> partition(cust_prof=1);
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Rahul Channe <drah...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I have created the following partitioned table in hive
>>>
>>>  create table custs ( cust_id int, first_name String,last_name
>>> String,cust_age int ) partitioned  by ( cust_prof String) row format
>>> delimited fields terminated by ',';
>>>
>>> when I am trying to load data into the table, I am getting error
>>>
>>> load data local inpath './custs' into table custs  partition(cust_prof);
>>>
>>> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis:
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: cust_prof not found in
>>> table's partition spec: {cust_prof=null}
>>>
>>
>>
>

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