Re: Hive Avro union data access

2014-06-03 Thread Fastupload
Sathish, Curent version Hive ONLY support union type has two primitive/struct types, i.e.. {“name”: “alias_host”, “type”: [ “string”, “null” ]} , or {“name”: “alias_host”, “type”: [{“type”: “array”, “items”: “string”]}, “null”}. You can consider JSON string as a column type when the column has s

RE: Hive Avro union data access

2014-05-30 Thread java8964
Your "alias_host" column is an array, from your Avro specification, right? If so, just use [] to access the specified element in the array select alias_host[0] from array_tests where aliat_host[0] like '%test%' If you want to query all the elements in the array, google "explode lateral view" of hi