PREHOOK: query: create table tbl (a binary) PREHOOK: type: CREATETABLE POSTHOOK: query: create table tbl (a binary) POSTHOOK: type: CREATETABLE POSTHOOK: Output: default@tbl FAILED: SemanticException Line 0:-1 Wrong arguments 'a': No matching method for class org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.UDFToDouble with (binary). Possible choices: _FUNC_(void) _FUNC_(boolean) _FUNC_(tinyint) _FUNC_(smallint) _FUNC_(int) _FUNC_(bigint) _FUNC_(float) _FUNC_(string) _FUNC_(timestamp)