Error when querying avro-backed hive table: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
问题 I am trying to create a hive table on azure HDInsight from an avro file exported from raw google analytics data in BigQuery. It seems to work. I can created the table, and there are no errors when I run DESCRIBE. But when I try to select results, even if I select only two non-nested columns, I get a an error: "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException". Here's how I created the table: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ga_sessions_20150106; CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ga_sessions_20150106 ROW FORMAT SERDE