Reuben Kuhnert created HIVE-10597: ------------------------------------- Summary: Relative path doesn't work with CREATE TABLE LOCATION 'relative/path' Key: HIVE-10597 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10597 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Reuben Kuhnert Assignee: Reuben Kuhnert Priority: Critical
{code} 0: jdbc:hive2://a2110.halxg.cloudera.com:1000> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS mydb.employees3 like mydb.employees LOCATION 'data/stock'; Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException) (state=08S01,code=1) 0: jdbc:hive2://a2110.halxg.cloudera.com:1000> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS mydb.employees3 like mydb.employees LOCATION '/user/hive/data/stock'; No rows affected (0.369 seconds) {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)