PREHOOK: query: drop table aa PREHOOK: type: DROPTABLE POSTHOOK: query: drop table aa POSTHOOK: type: DROPTABLE PREHOOK: query: create table aa ( test STRING ) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.contrib.serde2.RegexSerDe' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ("input.regex" = "[^\\](.*)", "output.format.string" = "$1s") PREHOOK: type: CREATETABLE FAILED: Error in metadata: java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class near index 7 [^\](.*) ^ FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask