how to create multi level partition in hive using sqoop
<p>I need to create hive table having three Partitions year/month/day using Sqoop. I have checked <strong>--hive-partition-key</strong> and <strong>--hive-partition-value</strong> in sqoop. using these parameters I have created partition <strong>year</strong> like this   <code>--hive-partition-key year --hive-partition-value '2016'</code>
My question is how to pass multiple values for partition-key and partition-value to create partitions like year/month/day.   </p>

<pre><code>sqoop import --connect jdbc:postgresql://localhost:7432/test_db \
  --driver org.postgresql.Driver --username pgadmin --password pgadmin@1234 \
  --table user1  \
  --fields-terminated-by '\001' \
  --lines-terminated-by '\012' \
  --hcatalog-database test \
  --hcatalog-table user1 \
  --hcatalog-partition-keys year,month,day \
  --hcatalog-partition-values '2016,08,15' \
  --verbose
</code></pre>

 

<pre><code>ERROR tool.ImportTool: Encountered IOException running import job: java.io.IOException: NoSuchObjectException(message:test.user1 table not found)
        at org.apache.hive.hcatalog.mapreduce.HCatInputFormat.setInput(HCatInputFormat.java:97)
        at org.apache.hive.hcatalog.mapreduce.HCatInputFormat.setInput(HCatInputFormat.java:51)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.configureHCat(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:343)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.configureImportOutputFormat(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:783)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.configureOutputFormat(ImportJobBase.java:98)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.runImport(ImportJobBase.java:259)
        at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.importTable(SqlManager.java:673)
        at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:497)
        at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:605)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236)
Caused by: NoSuchObjectException(message:test.user1 table not found)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_table_result$get_table_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:34980)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_table_result$get_table_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:34948)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_table_result.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:34879)
        at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:78)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.recv_get_table(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1214)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.get_table(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1200)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getTable(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:1201)
        at org.apache.hive.hcatalog.common.HCatUtil.getTable(HCatUtil.java:180)
        at org.apache.hive.hcatalog.mapreduce.InitializeInput.getInputJobInfo(InitializeInput.java:105)
        at org.apache.hive.hcatalog.mapreduce.InitializeInput.setInput(InitializeInput.java:86)
        at org.apache.hive.hcatalog.mapreduce.HCatInputFormat.setInput(HCatInputFormat.java:95)
        ... 14 more
</code></pre>

<p>Updated command :</p>

<pre><code>sqoop import --connect jdbc:postgresql://localhost:7432/test_db \
  --driver org.postgresql.Driver --username pgadmin --password pgadmin@1234 \
  --table user1  \
  --create-hcatalog-table \
  --hcatalog-table user1 \
  --hcatalog-partition-keys year,month,day \
  --hcatalog-partition-values '2016,08,15' \
  --verbose
</code></pre>

<p>Error after updated command</p>

<pre><code>16/08/17 05:53:20 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities: Executing external HCatalog CLI process with args :-f,/tmp/hcat-script-1471413200625
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities: MismatchedTokenException(10!=288)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.recoverFromMismatchedToken(BaseRecognizer.java:617)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.match(BaseRecognizer.java:115)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.primitiveType(HiveParser.java:39530)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.type(HiveParser.java:38772)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.colType(HiveParser.java:38522)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.columnNameType(HiveParser.java:38222)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.columnNameTypeList(HiveParser.java:36445)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.createTableStatement(HiveParser.java:4864)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities:         at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
16/08/17 05:53:24 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities: FAILED: ParseException line 3:15 mismatched input ',' expecting ( near 'varchar' in primitive type specificat
16/08/17 05:53:25 DEBUG util.ClassLoaderStack: Restoring classloader: sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@326de728
16/08/17 05:53:25 ERROR tool.ImportTool: Encountered IOException running import job: java.io.IOException: HCat exited with status 64
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.executeExternalHCatProgram(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:1129)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.launchHCatCli(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:1078)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.createHCatTable(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:625)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.configureHCat(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:340)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.configureImportOutputFormat(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:783)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.configureOutputFormat(ImportJobBase.java:98)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.runImport(ImportJobBase.java:259)
        at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.importTable(SqlManager.java:673)
        at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:497)
        at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:605)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236)
</code></pre>