The wiki docs are incorrect here. CREATE INDEX does not yet supported a PARTITIONED BY clause; that was added in the spec to support HIVE-1499, which hasn't been implemented yet.
For now, the index partitioning always follows the table partitioning exactly. JVS On Aug 14, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Daniel,Wu wrote: > create table part (a int,b int) PARTITIONED by (c int); > > create index part_idx on table part(b,c) AS > 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.index.compact.CompactIndexHandler' WITH DEFERRED > REBUILD > partitioned by (a) ; > > hive> create index part_idx on table part(b,c) AS > 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.index.compact.CompactIndexHandler' WITH DEFERRED > REBUILD > > partitioned by (a) ; > FAILED: Parse Error: line 2:0 mismatched input 'partitioned' expecting EOF > near 'REBUILD' > > hive> > > > If I remove the partitioned by (a), then the index can be created. But I need > to partition it on column. Is that not supported yet or I made some mistake? > > > >
