It is. You can see the definitive list of keywords at https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/HiveLexer.g (Note this is for the master branch, you can switch the branch around to find the list for a particular release.) It would be good to file a JIRA on this so we fix the documentation.
Alan. On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:48 AM Matt Burgess <mattyb...@apache.org> wrote: > I tried the following simple statement in beeline (Hive 3.0.0): > > create table app (application STRING); > > And got the following error: > > Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line > 1:18 cannot recognize input near 'application' 'STRING' ')' in column > name or constraint (state=42000,code=40000) > > I checked the Wiki [1] but didn't see 'application' on the list of > reserved words. However if I change the column name to anything else > (even 'applicatio') it works. Can someone confirm whether this is a > reserved word? > > Thanks in advance, > Matt > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Keywords,Non-reservedKeywordsandReservedKeywords >
