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Ankit Singhal commented on PHOENIX-3478: ---------------------------------------- you need to use quotes if you have SQL reserved characters(like ".") in your property name(https://phoenix.apache.org/language/index.html#name). {code} UPDATE STATISTICS my_table SET "phoenix.stats.guidepost.width"=50000000 {code} Let me see If I can update documentation to represent this better. > UPDATE STATISTICS SET syntax error > ---------------------------------- > > Key: PHOENIX-3478 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-3478 > Project: Phoenix > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 4.8.1 > Reporter: Alex Batyrshin > Priority: Minor > > According to > [documentation|https://phoenix.apache.org/language/index.html#update_statistics] > example: > bq. UPDATE STATISTICS my_table SET phoenix.stats.guidepost.width=50000000 > And this is real world: > {code} > 0: jdbc:phoenix:> UPDATE STATISTICS "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" SET > phoenix.stats.guidepost.width=30000000; > Error: ERROR 604 (42P00): Syntax error. Mismatched input. Expecting "EQ", got > "." at line 1, column 52. (state=42P00,code=604) > {code} > Looks like SET parameter should be quoted. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)