PREHOOK: query: drop table if exists parquet_varchar PREHOOK: type: DROPTABLE POSTHOOK: query: drop table if exists parquet_varchar POSTHOOK: type: DROPTABLE PREHOOK: query: create table parquet_varchar (t varchar(10)) stored as parquet PREHOOK: type: CREATETABLE PREHOOK: Output: database:default FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Parquet does not support varchar. See HIVE-6384