Hello everyone,

I observed a different behavior between Hive version 1.2.1 and 2.3.2
(that's the only two versions I've been able to test).

When creating an external table pointing to ORC files and having upper
cased column names in the ORC files metadata I'm able to read the data on
1.2.1 but not on 2.3.2 (i.e. all rows have NULL value).

I tested with both upper cased and lower cased column names in my CREATE
TABLE statement and it does not work in both cases. Looks like normal since
column names are normalized to lower case in Hive.

So, I would like to know if this is a feature or a bug in Hive 2.3.2 ?

In fact, if this is a feature it would be impossible to have upper case
column names in ORC files if we want to use them as an external table in
Hive 2.3.2.

I already posted an issue on Hive's JIRA but someone told me it would be
better to ask here (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20693)

Please, let me know if you need more informations.

Kind regards,

Alexandre

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