Hi,
I have the standard Hadoop vmware image installed (I think it contains
hadoop 0.18). I checked out and run hive based on the instructions on your
wiki.
I created a simple table containing 7 columns and loaded data into it.
Now, when I do "select a.* from mytable a;" everything works fine.
But, when trying "select a.mycolumn from mytable a;" I get the following
exception:

java.lang.AbstractMethodError:
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat.validateInput(Lorg/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf;)V
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:735)
    at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver.execute(ExecDriver.java:299)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:215)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:174)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:204)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:302)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:155)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68)

Should hive work with hadoop 0.18, or do I need to upgrade? Or do I need to
update/rebuild hive?
Thanks,
Martin

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