[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-8950) Add support in ParquetHiveSerde to create table schema from a parquet file

["Szehon Ho (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Szehon Ho commented on HIVE-8950:
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Hello, I'm a few years late :) but in Criteo we have been using this patch for a few months and it's really great.  I'll +1 the patch and try to rebase and get it in, if its ok for everyone here

> Add support in ParquetHiveSerde to create table schema from a parquet file
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>                 Key: HIVE-8950
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8950
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ashish Singh
>            Assignee: Gaurav Kumar
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: HIVE-8950.1.patch, HIVE-8950.2.patch, HIVE-8950.3.patch, HIVE-8950.4.patch, HIVE-8950.5.patch, HIVE-8950.6.patch, HIVE-8950.7.patch, HIVE-8950.8.patch, HIVE-8950.patch
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> PARQUET-76 and PARQUET-47 ask for creating parquet backed tables without having to specify the column names and types. As, parquet files store schema in their footer, it is possible to generate hive schema from parquet file's metadata. This will improve usability of parquet backed tables.



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