Wow. This is gold. Dudu
From: Dmitry Tolpeko [mailto:dmtolp...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 6:47 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Hive table for a single file: CREATE/ALTER TABLE differences I accidentally noticed one feature: (it is well know n that in CREATE TABLE you must specify a directory for the table LOCATION otherwise you get: "Can't make directory for path 's3n://dir/file' since it is a file.") But at the same time, ALTER TABLE SET LOCATION 's3n://dir/file' works fine. SELECT also reads data from the single file only. I see this in Hive 1.0.0-amzn-4. Is this just a bug and will be fixed some day (or maybe already fixed) or it is for some reason, and will stay? Thanks, Dmitry
