I have pipe-delimited text files in HDFS (lines delimited by new line), and a parquet table:   CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table_parquet( TRADE_DATE TIMESTAMP, [removed for brevity] FILLER STRING ) PARTITIONED BY(REGION STRING) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' STORED AS PARQUET LOCATION 'hdfs://path/to/location/';   ALTER TABLE table_parquet ADD PARTITION(REGION ='euro') LOCATION 'hdfs://path/to/location/euro';   However, when I try to query the table, I get   Backend 0:File hdfs://path/to/file.txt is invalid.  Invalid file footer: | I have tried inserting spaces between the last pipe and the newline, and I've tried removing the last pipe, but no luck. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?    Edit: This is Impala 1.4.0 ... View more