-- verify that new joins bring in correct schemas (including evolved schemas) CREATE TABLE doctors4 ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' TBLPROPERTIES ('avro.schema.literal'='{ "namespace": "testing.hive.avro.serde", "name": "doctors", "type": "record", "fields": [ { "name":"number", "type":"int", "doc":"Order of playing the role" }, { "name":"first_name", "type":"string", "doc":"first name of actor playing role" }, { "name":"last_name", "type":"string", "doc":"last name of actor playing role" }, { "name":"extra_field", "type":"string", "doc":"an extra field not in the original file", "default":"fishfingers and custard" } ] }'); LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '../../data/files/doctors.avro' INTO TABLE doctors4; set hive.exec.compress.output=true; select count(*) from src;