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• filepath can be:
  • a relative path, such as project/data1
  • an absolute path, such as /user/hive/project/data1
  • a full URI with scheme and (optionally) an authority, such as hdfs://namenode:9000/user/hive/project/data1
• The target being loaded to can be a table or a partition. If the table is partitioned, then one must specify a specific partition of the table by specifying values for all of the partitioning columns.
• filepath can refer to a file (in which case Hive will move the file into the table) or it can be a directory (in which case Hive will move all the files within that directory into the table). In either case, filepath addresses a set of files.
• If the keyword LOCAL is specified, then:
  • the load command will look for filepath in the local file system. If a relative path is specified, it will be interpreted relative to the user's current working directory. The user can specify a full URI for local files as well - for example: file:///user/hive/project/data1Image Removed
  • the load command will try to copy all the files addressed by filepath to the target filesystem. The target file system is inferred by looking at the location attribute of the table. The copied data files will then be moved to the table.
• If the keyword LOCAL is not specified, then Hive will either use the full URI of filepath, if one is specified, or will apply the following rules:
  • If scheme or authority are not specified, Hive will use the scheme and authority from the hadoop configuration variable fs.default.name that specifies the Namenode URI.
  • If the path is not absolute, then Hive will interpret it relative to /user/<username>
  • Hive will move the files addressed by filepath into the table (or partition)
• If the OVERWRITE keyword is used then the contents of the target table (or partition) will be deleted and replaced by the files referred to by filepath; otherwise the files referred by filepath will be added to the table.
  • Note that if the target table (or partition) already has a file whose name collides with any of the filenames contained in filepath, then the existing file will be replaced with the new file.

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