I tried quoted. But my mistake was ti use ' instead of ` :) On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> stackoverflow is your friend. > > that said have a peek at the doc even :) cf. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageMan > ual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Keywords,Non-reservedKeywordsandReservedKeywords > paying close attention to this paragraph: > > {quote} > Reserved keywords are permitted as identifiers if you quote them as > described in Supporting Quoted Identifiers in Column Names > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12618321/QuotedIdentifier.html> > (version 0.13.0 and later, see HIVE-6013 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6013>). Most of the keywords > are reserved through HIVE-6617 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6617> in order to reduce the > ambiguity in grammar (version 1.2.0 and later). There are two ways if the > user still would like to use those reserved keywords as identifiers: (1) > use quoted identifiers, (2) set hive.support.sql11.reserved.keywords > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Configuration+Properties#ConfigurationProperties-hive.support.sql11.reserved.keywords>=false. > > {quote} > > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Igor Kravzov <igork.ine...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am storing tweets in HDFS and creating external table on top of these >> tweets.. >> The command I am using is bellow: >> >> *create external table tweets (* >> * id bigint,* >> * in_reply_to_screen_name string,* >> * in_reply_to_status_id bigint,* >> * user struct<* >> * id: bigint, * >> * name: string,* >> * screen_name: string>,* >> * retweeted_status struct <* >> * id:bigint>,* >> * text string* >> * )* >> *partitioned by (yyyymmdd int)* >> *ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'* >> *location 'my location';* >> >> But I am getting the following error: >> >> org.apache.ambari.view.hive.client.HiveInvalidQueryException: Error while >> compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line 5:2 Failed to recognize >> predicate 'user'. Failed rule: 'identifier' in column specification >> [ERROR_STATUS] >> >> Without "user" definition" query runs fine. >> >> Can it be because 'user' is reserved keyword? Or there is something else? >> "user" as part of tweet structure. How can I name column differently? >> >> Thank in advance. >> > >
