The staging table has no partitions, so no issue there. Also, the error specifically refers to the covertion between the struct types.
Dudu FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 2:23 Cannot insert into target table because column number/types are different ''CA'': Cannot convert column 4 from struct<street:string,cty:string,st:string,zip:int> to struct<street:string,city:string,state:string,zip:int>. -----Original Message----- From: Gopal Vijayaraghavan [mailto:go...@hortonworks.com] On Behalf Of Gopal Vijayaraghavan Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 6:17 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Hive error : Can not convert struct<> to <struct> > PARTITION(state='CA') > SELECT * WHERE se.adr.st='CA' > FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 2:23 Cannot insert into >target table because column number/types are different ''CA'': The error is bogus, but the issue has to do with the "SELECT *". Inserts where a partition is specified statically cannot have a partition column in the select. So this is failing since it is trying to insert n-1 columns, because state='CA' cannot be repeated in the SELECT. Cheers, Gopal
