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Brock Noland commented on HIVE-8950:
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[~spena] has a bunch of experience with Parquet as well.
> Add support in ParquetHiveSerde to create table schema from a parquet file
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> Key: HIVE-8950
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8950
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ashish Kumar Singh
> Assignee: Ashish Kumar Singh
> Attachments: HIVE-8950.patch
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> PARQUET-76 and PARQUET-47 ask for creating parquet backed tables without
> having to specify the column names and types. As, parquet files store schema
> in their footer, it is possible to generate hive schema from parquet file's
> metadata. This will improve usability of parquet backed tables.
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