I might be missing something here but you could use: Create table newtable stored as avro as select * from oldtable
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Michael Segel <msegel_had...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Currently using Hive 13.x > > Would like to select from a table that exists and output to an external > file(s) in avro via hive. > > Is there a simple way to do this? > > From what I’ve seen online, the docs tend to imply you need to know the > avro schema when you specify the table. > Could you copy from an existing table, or do I need to dump the current > schema and write some code to generate an avro schema? > > Thx > > -Mike > >
