Hi Prasen, this should work... (I use CTRL+A as delimiter)
hive> create table test_ea (col1 string) row format delimited fields terminated by '\001' stored as textfile; In your case, '\002' should work. regards Eric Arenas ________________________________ From: prasenjit mukherjee <pmukher...@quattrowireless.com> To: hive-user <hive-user@hadoop.apache.org> Sent: Tue, February 16, 2010 4:43:07 AM Subject: Fields delimited by unicode chars I have a pig statement which works fine : raw_data = LOAD '$input_path' USING PigStorage('\u0002') AS ... And I am trying to use the corresponding hive QL : CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE tx_log(......) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\u0002' STORED AS TEXTFILE LOCATION '/ip/data/tx_log_1'; This doesnt work. Any quick pointers on what should be the corresponding unicode representation ( for '\u0002' ) in hive ? -Prasen