[jira] [Created] (HIVE-14623) add CREATE TABLE FROM FILE command for self-describing formats

["Sergey Shelukhin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sergey Shelukhin created HIVE-14623:
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             Summary: add CREATE TABLE FROM FILE command for self-describing formats
                 Key: HIVE-14623
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14623
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin


For self-describing formats like ORC, it should be possible to create a table from a file without explicitly specifying the schema. It would be useful for debugging, but also for all kinds of ad-hoc activities with data (and I bet someone will also use it for ETL, sadly ;)). 
The schema should be established in metastore as the final schema for the table; it should not be an attached+derived schema, like for Avro.



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