Can anybody tell me what's going on here? Everything I've read says to use "\N" for both STRINGs and non-STRINGs, but Hive is treating them differently. WTF?
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August 8, 2014 15:49
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WTF NULL HIVE?
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| \\N\\N |
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| hive> SELECT * FROM default.null_test; | |
| OK | |
| NULL \N |
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| CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE default.null_test ( | |
| int_test INT, | |
| string_test STRING) | |
| ROW FORMAT DELIMITED | |
| FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\001' ESCAPED BY '\\' | |
| STORED AS TEXTFILE | |
| LOCATION '/user/rbriones/test_null'; |
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This issue appears to be a bad combination of
--escaped-by '\\'and--null-string '\\N'. Works great when removing--escaped-by