Based on these describe statements, is what I'm trying to do feasable? I'm
basically trying to load the contents of ApiUsageTemp into ApiUsage, with
the ApiUsageTemp.requestdate column becoming the ApiUsage.dt partition.


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Bill Graham <billgra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure. The only difference I see is that the ApiUsage has a dt partition,
> instead of the requestdate column:
>
> hive> describe extended
> ApiUsage;
> OK
> user    string
> restresource    string
> statuscode      int
> requesthour     int
> numrequests     string
> responsetime    string
> numslowrequests string
> dt      string
>
> Detailed Table Information      Table(tableName:apiusage, dbName:default,
> owner:grahamb, createTime:1248884801, lastAccessTime:0, retention:0,
> sd:StorageDescriptor(cols:[FieldSchema(name:user, type:string,
> comment:null), FieldSchema(name:restresource, type:string, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:statuscode, type:int, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:requesthour, type:int, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:numrequests, type:string, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:responsetime, type:string, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:numslowrequests, type:string, comment:null)],
> location:hdfs://xxxxxxx:9000/user/hive/warehouse/apiusage<http://c18-ssa-dev40-so-qry1.cnet.com:9000/user/hive/warehouse/apiusage>,
> inputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat,
> outputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat,
> compressed:false, numBuckets:-1, serdeInfo:SerDeInfo(name:null,
> serializationLib:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe,
> parameters:{field.delim= , serialization.format= }), bucketCols:[],
> sortCols:[], parameters:{}), partitionKeys:[FieldSchema(name:dt,
> type:string, comment:null)], parameters:{})
> Time taken: 0.277 seconds
> hive> describe extended ApiUsageTemp;
> OK
> user    string
> restresource    string
> statuscode      int
> requestdate     string
> requesthour     int
> numrequests     string
> responsetime    string
> numslowrequests string
>
> Detailed Table Information      Table(tableName:apiusagetemp,
> dbName:default, owner:grahamb, createTime:1248466925, lastAccessTime:0,
> retention:0, sd:StorageDescriptor(cols:[FieldSchema(name:user, type:string,
> comment:null), FieldSchema(name:restresource, type:string, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:statuscode, type:int, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:requestdate, type:string, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:requesthour, type:int, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:numrequests, type:string, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:responsetime, type:string, comment:null),
> FieldSchema(name:numslowrequests, type:string, comment:null)],
> location:hdfs://xxxxxxx:9000/user/hive/warehouse/apiusage<http://c18-ssa-dev40-so-qry1.cnet.com:9000/user/hive/warehouse/apiusage>,
> inputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat,
> outputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat,
> compressed:false, numBuckets:-1, serdeInfo:SerDeInfo(name:null,
> serializationLib:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe,
> parameters:{field.delim= , serialization.format= }), bucketCols:[],
> sortCols:[], parameters:{}), partitionKeys:[],
> parameters:{last_modified_time=1248826696, last_modified_by=app})
> Time taken: 0.235 seconds
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Zheng Shao <zsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can you send the output of these 2 commands?
>>
>> describe extended ApiUsage;
>> describe extended ApiUsageTemp;
>>
>>
>> Zheng
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Bill Graham<billgra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the tip, but it fails in the same way when I use a string.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:21 PM, David Lerman <dler...@videoegg.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> hive> create table partTable (a string, b int) partitioned by (dt
>> int);
>> >>
>> >> > INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE ApiUsage PARTITION (dt = "20090518")
>> >> > SELECT `(requestDate)?+.+` FROM ApiUsageTemp WHERE requestDate =
>> >> > '2009/05/18'
>> >>
>> >> The table has an int partition column (dt), but you're trying to set a
>> >> string value (dt = "20090518").
>> >>
>> >> Try :
>> >>
>> >> create table partTable (a string, b int) partitioned by (dt string);
>> >>
>> >> and then do your insert.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Yours,
>> Zheng
>>
>
>

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