Change hive column size

2015-05-28 Thread Udit Mehta
Hi, Per this ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1364 , the max column size in hive is limited to 4000 chars. But i do read that there is a way to increase it via *mysql* which is our database for the metastore. Can anyone point me as to how I can do this? Our columns have deeply n

Re: Change hive column size

2015-05-28 Thread Steve Howard
Hi Udit, That JIRA is five years old and applies to hive 0.5. Newer releases are far larger... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types Thanks, Steve Sent from my iPad > On May 28, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Udit Mehta wrote: > > Hi, > > Per this ticket: https://issue

Re: Change hive column size

2015-05-28 Thread Udit Mehta
Hi Steve, I do see that it applies to hive 0.5. But I am facing a similar issue where my column of complex type is not able to hold a nested struct beyond a certain size(around 4000). I guessed 4000 still might be the followed size. Could it be a restriction imposed on the serde(which I doubt)? I

Re: Change hive column size

2015-05-28 Thread Udit Mehta
Also this might be relevant now: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9815 On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Udit Mehta wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I do see that it applies to hive 0.5. But I am facing a similar issue > where my column of complex type is not able to hold a nested struct beyond