Hi Gopal, Thanx for the suggestion. It works with the setting you suggested.
What does this mean? Do I need to special case this query. Also, I am trying different things to see what is breaking. Looks like I have a UNION ALL and both sides have a query with a GROUP BY. This breaks. CREATE TABLE unique_ip_tmp AS SELECT DISTINCT new.ip FROM ( SELECT COUNT(0) , ip FROM t1 WHERE dt BETWEEN '2016-11-08' AND '2016-11-08' GROUP BY ip UNION ALL SELECT COUNT(0) , ip FROM t2 WHERE dt BETWEEN '2016-11-08' AND '2016-11-08' GROUP BY ip ) new LEFT JOIN unique_ip old ON old.ip = new.ip WHERE old.ip IS NULL ; If I remove one of the queries in the UNION, it works CREATE TABLE unique_ip_tmp AS SELECT DISTINCT new.ip FROM ( SELECT COUNT(0) , ip FROM map_activity WHERE dt BETWEEN '2016-11-08' AND '2016-11-08' GROUP BY ip ) new LEFT JOIN unique_ip old ON old.ip = new.ip WHERE old.ip IS NULL ; If I create tmp tables from the group by queries and use them, that works too CREATE TABLE unique_ip_tmp AS SELECT DISTINCT new.ip FROM ( SELECT * FROM dropme_t1 UNION ALL SELECT * FROM dropme_t2 ) new LEFT JOIN unique_ip old ON old.ip = new.ip WHERE old.ip IS NULL ; Turning off CBO cluster-wide won't be the right thing to do, would it? On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Gopal Vijayaraghavan <gop...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > If I run a query with CREATE TABLE AS, it breaks with the error below. > However, just running the query works if I don't try to create a table from > the results. It does not happen to all CTAS queries. > > Not sure if that's related to Tez at all. > > Can try running it with > > set hive.cbo.enable=false; > > Cheers, > Gopal > > > -- Regards, Premal Shah.