[jira] [Commented] (SQOOP-3438) Sqoop Import with create hcatalog table for ORC will not work with Hive3 as the table created would be a ACID table and transactional

["Denes Bodo (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Denes Bodo commented on SQOOP-3438:
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[~dvoros], [~BoglarkaEgyed], [~vasas] Can you please comment my change? Thanks

> Sqoop Import with create hcatalog table for ORC will not work with Hive3 as the table created would be a ACID table and transactional
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>                 Key: SQOOP-3438
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-3438
>             Project: Sqoop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: hive-integration
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.7
>            Reporter: Denes Bodo
>            Assignee: Denes Bodo
>            Priority: Critical
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> PROBLEM: Running a sqoop import command with the option --create-hcatalog-table will not work due to the following reasons
> When create-hcatalog-table is used it creates the table as a Managed ACID table.
> HCatalog does not support transactional or bucketing table
> So customer who need to create a ORC based table cannot use sqoop to create a ORC based table which means their existing code where if in case they use sqoop to create these tables would fail.
> The current workaround is a two step process
> 1. Create the ORC table in hive with the keyword external and set transactional to false
> 2. Then use the sqoop command to load the data into the orc table.
> The request is to add in an extra argument in the sqoop command line to specify that the table is external (example: --hcatalog-external-table )so we can use the option --hcatalog-storage-stanza "stored as orc tblproperties (\"transactional\"=\"false\")".
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> Thank you [~mbalakrishnan] for your findings. This ticket is created based on your work.



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