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Charles Pritchard commented on HIVE-637: ---------------------------------------- I just hit this ancient issue, with a bunch of very small files uploaded into a bucket – all I'm looking to do is create external table derp (data blob) location '/bad/place' as I will be running a select __INPUT_FILE_NAME_, data command subsequent. > Add a simple way to create a blob table > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-637 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-637 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Serializers/Deserializers > Affects Versions: 0.3.0 > Reporter: Zheng Shao > Priority: Major > > A blob table has a single column of type string. We put all data from the row > into that column. > At present we are able to create blob table like this: > {code} > CREATE TABLE blobTable1 (blob STRING) > ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe' > WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( > 'serialization.last.column.takes.rest'='true' > ) > STORED AS TEXTFILE; > CREATE TABLE blobTable1 (blob STRING) > ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe' > WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( > 'serialization.last.column.takes.rest'='true' > ) > STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE; > {code} > We should add a simpler way to create such a table, since it's pretty popular. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)