I'm completely new to Hive and Stack Overflow. I'm trying to create a table with complex data type "STRUCT" and then populate it using INSERT INTO TABLE
in Hive.
I'm using the following code:
CREATE TABLE struct_test
(
address STRUCT<
houseno: STRING
,streetname: STRING
,town: STRING
,postcode: STRING
>
);
INSERT INTO TABLE struct_test
SELECT NAMED_STRUCT('123', 'GoldStreet', London', W1a9JF') AS address
FROM dummy_table
LIMIT 1;
I get the following error:
Error while compiling statement: FAILED: semanticException [Error 10044]: Cannot insert into target because column number type are different 'struct_test': Cannot convert column 0 from struct to array>.
I was able to use similar code with success to create and populate a data type Array but am having difficulty with Struct. I've tried lots of code examples I've found online but none of them seem to work for me... I would really appreciate some help on this as I've been stuck on it for quite a while now! Thanks.
your sql error. you should use sql:
INSERT INTO TABLE struct_test
SELECT NAMED_STRUCT('houseno','123','streetname','GoldStreet', 'town','London', 'postcode','W1a9JF') AS address
FROM dummy_table LIMIT 1;