[IMPALA-986] Allow creating a parquet table from an existing parquet file.

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 1.3.1
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.4
• Assignee: Victor Bittorf
• Reporter: Nong Li
• Created: 07/May/14 01:48
• Updated: 06/Jan/17 19:41
• Resolved: 16/Jun/14 21:02

Description

It would generally improve usability if we could extract the table schema from an existing parquet file. This is very useful when the files are generated from MR.