Hi
When i try creating a external table to a text file on HDFS i get the following
error. Could someone please let me know where I am going wrong.
hive> create external table seq4 (item STRING) row format delimited fields
terminated by '' STORED as TEXTFILE location
'hdfs://<host>:54310/user/myfolder/items';
FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception:
org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException java.io.FileNotFoundException: Parent
path is not a directory: /user/myfolder/items
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.mkdirs(FSDirectory.java:944)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirsInternal(FSNamesystem.java:2068)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirs(FSNamesystem.java:2029)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.mkdirs(NameNode.java:817)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor109.invoke(Unknown Source)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:563)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1388)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1384)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:416)
at
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1093)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1382)
)
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask
Thanks
Ranjitha.
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