Ignoring the CTAS part can you try running the select query and see if it
completes. My suspicion is that some record/field in your large file is
causing drill to break. Also it would be helpful if you can give more
information from the drillbit.log when this error happens (Search for
da53d687-a8d5
Converting CSV files to Parquet with CTAS, and getting errors on some
larger files:
With a source file of 16.34GB (as reported in the HDFS explorer):
~~~
create table `/parquet/customer_20151017` partition by (date_tm) AS
select * from `/csv/customer/customer_20151017.csv`;
Error: SYSTEM ERROR
