[PARQUET-596] Parquet need to support empty list and empty map

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: parquet-format
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Yongzhi Chen
• Created: 02/May/16 17:17
• Updated: 08/Sep/16 16:33
• Resolved: 08/Sep/16 16:33

Description

In current hive upstream 2.1version, when hive tried to insert empty list or empty map to parquet table, it fails with error:
parquet.io.ParquetEncodingException: empty fields are illegal, the field should be ommited completely instead

It seems now parquet only support null value, we should find a way to support empty list and empty map values.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-13632 Hive failing on insert empty array into parquet table