You are hitting this issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13185 which is fixed in latest hive release (2.1.0)
Thanks Prasanth > On Sep 9, 2016, at 2:21 AM, Gopal Vijayaraghavan <gop...@apache.org> wrote: > > >> It will be ok if the file has more than two characters,that is a little >> interesting. I can not understand the result of function checkInputFormat is >> OrcInputFormat,maybe that is just right. > > My guess is that it is trying to read the 3 letter string "ORC" from that > file and failing. > > https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/io/orc/OrcInputFormat.java#L471 > > Cheers, > Gopal > > > > >
