That's beside the point. The question is, why can't I drop the table? There is no excuse for not dropping a table just because some serde can't be found. It shouldn't operate that way at all.
Thanks. On Jun 10, 2014, at 23:33 , Nitin Pawar wrote: > if you have added a table with a serde definition > > then just keep the jar in local filesystem and then in hive console do > add jar <full path to jar>; > > this should make your serde available to table and you should be able to drop > the table then. > > I just tried above steps and it works for my json based tables. > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> wrote: > I tried to create a table that would use a csv serde. There were various > problems with it, primarily in that I couldn't figure out how to specify the > path to the serde (whether I indicate the serde location either locally or on > HDFS) there were subsequent errors about not finding the serde, even though > the paths were correct). > > So I decided to drop the table since it wasn't working...but the serde error > that is causing these problems to begin with prevents me from dropping the > table due to a serde-doesn't-exist error. Yeah, duh, that's the problem in > the first place. > > This is an acknowledged problem, as indicated here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3392 > ...but I don't understand from that page how to get around the problem. > There is a lengthy discussion, but it's unclear how to actually drop the darn > table. In fact, that page suggests the problem is officially classified as > "won't be fixed". > > Note, this problem also prevents me from renaming the table via "alter". > > I don't know what to do at this point. Any ideas? > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com > music.keithwiley.com > > "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches > me to suspect that my own is also." > -- Mark Twain > ________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > -- > Nitin Pawar ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com music.keithwiley.com "It's a fine line between meticulous and obsessive-compulsive and a slippery rope between obsessive-compulsive and debilitatingly slow." -- Keith Wiley ________________________________________________________________________________
