I have to create external Hive tables (and then add partitions on these
tables) on the existing data files in hdfs.
On doing it I am getting the error :
FAILED: Error in metadata:
MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite
cause)
FAILED: Execution Error, return c
gt;
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>>I have created a external table and when I provide the location of the data
>>for this table I get the following error:
>>FAILED: Error in metadata:
>>MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite cause)
>>FAILED: Executio
;On Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:37 PM, Rishabh Bhardwaj
>>wrote:
>>
>>Hi ,
>>
>>
>>I have created a external table and when I provide the location of the data
>>for this table I get the following error:
>>FAILED: Error in metadata:
>>MetaExc
at 12:52 PM, Rishabh Bhardwaj wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:37 PM, Rishabh Bhardwaj <
>> rbnex...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I have created a external table and when I provide the location of the
>> data for this table I get
on of the
> data for this table I get the following error:
> FAILED: Error in metadata:
> MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite
> cause)
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask
> Also I am able t
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:37 PM, Rishabh Bhardwaj
wrote:
Hi ,
I have created a external table and when I provide the location of the data for
this table I get the following error:
FAILED: Error in metadata:
MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't over
