Unable to run query select * from <table_name>

[#1]

Hi,

I see below error,

Could some one please help.

[dayrhedpru007.enterprisenet.org:21000] > select * from events_census limit 2;

Query: select * from events_census limit 2

ERROR: AnalysisException: Failed to load metadata for table: agf_dev.events_census

CAUSED BY: TableLoadingException: Unrecognized table type for table: agf_dev.events_census

[#2]

You may be querying an unsupported table type, or the table metadata may be corrupted. We don't support all of Hive's table storage options.

If you run "show create table table_name" in Impala, or Hive if it fails in Impala, this will have more information about how the table is stored.

[#3]

Hi Tim,

Many thanks for the reply. I am trying to find out root cause of this issue and issue is present only for one table but for other tables.

I am trying to find out to check if the metadata is corrupted or not.

How to check the same, your help is valuable.

[#4]

It would be useful to know how the table was created. Was it created in Impala or another tool like Hive? If you created it in Hive, can you query it from hive?

[#5]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I will get back to you with the information shortly.

[#6]

Hi,

Here is the output from hive/impala. Table is created in hive.

HIVE

===

hive> SHOW CREATE TABLE tablename;

OK

CREATE TABLE `tablename`(

  `time` int,

  `instrumentationserver` string,

  `cid` string,

  `contentgroup` string,

  `actiontype` string,

  `resourcetype` string,

  `subresourcetype` string,

  `visitor` string,

  `useragent` string,

  `ipaddress` string,

  `measurementmethod` string,

  `justassigned` boolean,

  `robotactivity` string,

  `robotua` string,

  `pageurl` string,

  `referringurl` string,

  `targeturl` string,

  `duration` int,

  `screenresolution` string,

  `colordepth` string,

  `languagecode` string,

  `javaenabled` boolean,

  `cookieenabled` boolean,

  `customtags` array<struct<name:string,value:string>>,

  `partnertags` array<struct<name:string,value:string>>,

  `documenttitle` string,

  `homepage` boolean,

  `connectiontype` string,

  `timezoneoffset` int,

  `browser` string,

  `browserversion` string,

  `os` string,

  `osversion` string,

  `country` string,

  `region` string,

  `city` string,

  `connectionspeed` string,

  `latitude` float,

  `longitude` float,

  `metrocode` int,

  `firstevent` boolean,

  `cookieblocked` boolean,

  `clickpoint` string,

  `primarygroup` string,

  `campaign` string,

  `creative` string,

  `placement` string,

  `result` string,

  `markedresult` boolean,

  `revenue` float,

  `creativegroup` string,

  `streamduration` int,

  `adserver` int,

  `endpoint` int,

  `publisher` string,

  `adnetwork` string,

  `identity` string,

  `sequencenum` int,

  `chapter` int,

  `totalchapternum` int,

  `customtagstr` string,

  `donottrack` boolean,

  `zipcode` string,

  `viewabilitystatus` string,

  `channelasset` string,

  `crashidentifier` boolean,

  `product` string,

  `reportingdatadate` string,

  `viewtimeoffset` int,

  `providerlist` string,

  `suppressprovider` string,

  `forwardflag` boolean,

  `accessmethod` int,

  `encryptionidentifier` boolean,

  `daycd` string,

  `hourcd` int,

  `userlatitude` float,

  `userlongitude` float,

  `assetid` string,

  `advertiseid` string)

PARTITIONED BY (

  `traf_type` string,

  `date` string,

  `hh` string,

  `part` string)

ROW FORMAT SERDE

  'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcSerde'

STORED AS INPUTFORMAT

  'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat'

OUTPUTFORMAT

  'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcOutputFormat'

LOCATION

  'hdfs://nameservice1/user/hive/warehouse/dbname.db/tablename'

TBLPROPERTIES (

  'last_modified_by'='hive',

  'last_modified_time'='1445934602',

  'transient_lastDdlTime'='1445934602')

Time taken: 0.205 seconds, Fetched: 98 row(s)

hive>

IMPALA

=====

[impalarunning.server.org:21000] > SHOW CREATE TABLE tablename;

Query: show CREATE TABLE tablename

ERROR: AnalysisException: Failed to load metadata for table: dbname.tablename

CAUSED BY: TableLoadingException: Unrecognized table type for table: dbname.tablename

[impalarunning.server.org:21000] >

Original table name is replaced by "tablename."

[#7]

The table use the ORCFile format, which we don't support in Impala. We
recommend using Parquet, which is supported by Hive, MapReduce, Impala and
many other systems.

[#8]

Hi,

Many thanks for the information.

Is there any official web link which informs us about orc format being not supported?

[#9 · Accepted solution]

The Impala documentation lists the supported file formats:
http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala_file_formats...

[#10]

Thanks for your support. Case is closed now.