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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:49:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: INSERT INTO table with STRUCT, SELECT FROM
From: Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru@gmail.com>
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I developed the inline udtf. Seems to work:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/udf_inline.q


  as (id, text) FROM SRC limit 2;

SELECT inline(
  ARRAY(
    STRUCT (1,'dude!'),
    STRUCT (2,'Wheres'),
    STRUCT (3,'my car?')
  )
)  as (id, text) FROM SRC limit 2;

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Dean Wampler
<dean.wampler@thinkbiganalytics.com> wrote:
> Hmm. I tried the following hacks, but all wouldn't parse. Ideas?
>
> I changed:
>
>   ... select struct(x,y) ...
>
> to
>
>   ... select struct(x,y) as struct<a:int,b:int> ...
>   ... select cast(struct(x,y) as struct<a:int,b:int>) ...
>   ... select struct(x as a,y as b) ...
>
> Okay, but there is a hack that does work; By pass INSERT INTO and just write
> to the directory:
>
> INSERT DIRECTORY '/path/to/table/directory' SELECT ...;
>
> Just be careful it doesn't clobber any files already there. I'm paranoid, so
> I would write to a different directory and then move the files over...
>
> dean
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Michael Malak <michaelmalak@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to INSERT INTO TABLE t SELECT FROM where t has a column
>> with a STRUCT?
>>
>> Based on
>>
>> http://grokbase.com/t/hive/user/109r87hh3e/insert-data-into-a-column-of-complex-type
>>
>> I thought perhaps the following would work:
>>
>> echo 1,2 >twovalues.csv
>> hive
>> CREATE TABLE tc (x INT, y INT) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY
>> ',';
>> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'twovalues.csv' INTO TABLE tc;
>> CREATE TABLE oc (z STRUCT<a: int, b: int>);
>> INSERT INTO TABLE oc SELECT struct(x,y) FROM tc;
>>
>> but when I do the above I get:
>>
>> FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10044]: Line 1:18 Cannot insert into
>> target table because column number/types are different 'oc': Cannot convert
>> column 0 from struct<col1:int,col2:int> to struct<a:int,b:int>.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dean Wampler, Ph.D.
> thinkbiganalytics.com
> +1-312-339-1330
>