Anthony Hsu created HIVE-6835: --------------------------------- Summary: Reading of partitioned Avro data fails if partition schema does not match table schema Key: HIVE-6835 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6835 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.12.0 Reporter: Anthony Hsu Assignee: Anthony Hsu
To reproduce: {code} create table testarray (a array<string>); load data local inpath '/home/ahsu/test/array.txt' into table testarray; # create partitioned Avro table with one array column create table avroarray (a array<string>) partitioned by (y string) row format serde 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' with serdeproperties ('avro.schema.literal'='{"namespace":"test","name":"avroarray","type": "record", "fields": [ { "name":"a", "type":{"type":"array","items":"string"} } ] }') STORED as INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat'; insert into table avroarray partition(y=1) select * from testarray; # add an int column with a default value of 0 alter table avroarray set serde 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' with serdeproperties('avro.schema.literal'='{"namespace":"test","name":"avroarray","type": "record", "fields": [ {"name":"intfield","type":"int","default":0},{ "name":"a", "type":{"type":"array","items":"string"} } ] }'); # fails with ClassCastException select * from avroarray; {code} The select * fails with: {code} Failed with exception java.io.IOException:java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.StandardListObjectInspector cannot be cast to org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.PrimitiveObjectInspector {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)