hive报错整理之Malformed ORC file 、Invalid postscript.

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Malformed ORC file

将本地文件的数据加载到hive的ORC格式表时，出现以下报错：

Diagnostic Messages for this Task:Error: java.io.IOException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.handleRecordReaderCreationException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.java:97)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.handleRecordReaderCreationException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.java:57)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure$CombineFileRecordReader.initNextRecordReader(HadoopShimsSecure.java:295)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure$CombineFileRecordReader.<init>(HadoopShimsSecure.java:242)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure$CombineFileInputFormatShim.getRecordReader(HadoopShimsSecure.java:356)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.CombineHiveInputFormat.getRecordReader(CombineHiveInputFormat.java:591)        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$TrackedRecordReader.<init>(MapTask.java:168)        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:409)        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:342)        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:168)        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1614)        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:163)Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure$CombineFileRecordReader.initNextRecordReader(HadoopShimsSecure.java:281)        ... 11 moreCaused by: java.io.IOException: Malformed ORC file hdfs://bigdata01.ibeifeng.com:8020/user/hive/warehouse/track_logs.db/track_log/date=20160323/20160323. Invalid postscript.        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.ReaderImpl.ensureOrcFooter(ReaderImpl.java:226)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.ReaderImpl.extractMetaInfoFromFooter(ReaderImpl.java:336)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.ReaderImpl.<init>(ReaderImpl.java:292)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcFile.createReader(OrcFile.java:197)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat.getRecordReader(OrcInputFormat.java:997)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.CombineHiveRecordReader.<init>(CombineHiveRecordReader.java:65)        ... 16 moreFAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTaskMapReduce Jobs Launched: Job 0: Map: 1  Reduce: 1   HDFS Read: 0 HDFS Write: 0 FAILTotal MapReduce CPU Time Spent: 0 msec

原因：
ORC格式是列式存储的表，不能直接从本地文件导入数据，只有当数据源表也是ORC格式存储时，才可以直接加载，否则会出现上述报错。

解决办法：
要么将数据源表改为以ORC格式存储的表，要么新建一个以textfile格式的临时表先将源文件数据加载到该表，然后在从textfile表中insert数据到ORC目标表中。