Alan, Thanks much for the info! I have written HIVE-19741 [1] to address the doc updates.
Regards, Matt [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19741 On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > It is. You can see the definitive list of keywords at > https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/HiveLexer.g > (Note this is for the master branch, you can switch the branch around to > find the list for a particular release.) It would be good to file a JIRA on > this so we fix the documentation. > > Alan. > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:48 AM Matt Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I tried the following simple statement in beeline (Hive 3.0.0): >> >> create table app (application STRING); >> >> And got the following error: >> >> Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line >> 1:18 cannot recognize input near 'application' 'STRING' ')' in column >> name or constraint (state=42000,code=40000) >> >> I checked the Wiki [1] but didn't see 'application' on the list of >> reserved words. However if I change the column name to anything else >> (even 'applicatio') it works. Can someone confirm whether this is a >> reserved word? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Matt >> >> [1] >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Keywords,Non-reservedKeywordsandReservedKeywords
