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sqlhiveprestotrinohive-partitions

Insert into static hive partition using Presto

Suppose I want to INSERT INTO a static hive partition, can I do that with Presto?

The PARTITION keyword is only for hive.

INSERT INTO TABLE Employee PARTITION (department='HR')

Caused by: com.facebook.presto.sql.parser.ParsingException: line 1:44: mismatched input 'PARTITION'. Expecting: '(', at com.facebook.presto.sql.parser.ErrorHandler.syntaxError(ErrorHandler.java:109)

Solution

  • In Presto you do not need PARTITION(department='HR').

    INSERT INTO Employee (name, department)
VALUES  ('John', 'HR');

    or

    INSERT INTO Employee (name, department)
select 
      name, 
      'HR' 
from 
...