HCat doesn't support create table dbname.tablename --------------------------------------------------
Key: HCATALOG-126 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-126 Project: HCatalog Issue Type: New Feature Components: metastore, scripts Affects Versions: 0.2 Reporter: David Capwell I am trying to create a table in a database and according to hive (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-CreateTable) this should work: CREATE TABLE defaultdb.tmp2 (data string); but when I run this in hcat, I get the following error: /home/y/bin/hcat -e "CREATE TABLE defaultdb.tmp2 (data string);" Hive history file=/tmp/dcapwell/hive_job_log_dcapwell_201110061659_1803432513.txt FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:22 cannot recognize input '.' in create table statement Can we support this? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira