Relative path error when creating external tables - hive

Question

My task is to create some external tables using hive beeline. But I encountered relative path error, says "Relative path in absolute URI: hdfs://localhost:8020./user/bigdata) (state=08S01,code=1)
Aborting command set because "force" is false and command failed:"
I am using a hql script(by requirement) to create external table, my script is this:
create external table ecustomer(
customer_id DECIMAL(3),
customer_code VARCHAR(5),
company_name VARCHAR(100),
contact_name VARCHAR(50),
contact_title VARCHAR(30),
city VARCHAR(30),
region VARCHAR(2),
postal_code VARCHAR(30),
country VARCHAR(30),
phone VARCHAR(30),
fax VARCHAR(30))
row format delimited fields terminated by '|'
stored as textfile location 'user/bigdata/ecustomer';
create external table eorder_detail(
order_id DECIMAL(5),
product_id DECIMAL(2),
customer_id DECIMAL(3),
salesperson_id DECIMAL(1),
unit_price DECIMAL(2,2),
quantity DECIMAL(2),
discount DECIMAL(1,1))
row format delimited fields terminated by '|'
stored as textfile location 'user/bigdata/eorder_detail';
create external table eproduct(
product_id DECIMAL(2),
product_name VARCHAR(50),
unit_price DECIMAL(2,2),
unit_in_stock DECIMAL(4),
unit_on_order DECIMAL(3),
discontinued VARCHAR(1))
row format delimited fields terminated by '|'
stored as textfile location 'user/bigdata/eproduct';
create external table esalesperson(
employee_id DECIMAL(1),
lastname VARCHAR(30),
firstname VARCHAR(30),
title VARCHAR(50),
birthdate VARCHAR(30),
hiredate VARCHAR(30),
notes VARCHAR(100))
row format delimited fields terminated by '|'
stored as textfile location 'user/bigdata/esalesperson';
create external table eorder(
order_id DECIMAL(5),
order_date VARCHAR(30),
ship_via DECIMAL(1),
ship_city VARCHAR(30),
ship_region VARCHAR(30),
ship_postal_code VARCHAR(30),
ship_country VARCHAR(30))
row format delimited fields terminated by '|'
stored as textfile location 'user/bigdata/eorder';
then, I execute this script on beeline server, however, I encountered the abovementioned error. I have already create a folder on my hadoop server for each table which are ecustomer, eorder_detail, eproduct, esalesperson and eorder. And the tables are also uploaded to hadoop server. Please help me resolve the error.

Answer 1

Try using an absolute path, instead of a relative one. e.g. 'hdfs://localhost:8020/user/bigdata/ecustomer'
create external table ecustomer(
customer_id DECIMAL(3),
customer_code VARCHAR(5),
company_name VARCHAR(100),
contact_name VARCHAR(50),
contact_title VARCHAR(30),
city VARCHAR(30),
region VARCHAR(2),
postal_code VARCHAR(30),
country VARCHAR(30),
phone VARCHAR(30),
fax VARCHAR(30))
row format delimited fields terminated by '|'
stored as textfile location 'hdfs://localhost:8020/user/bigdata/ecustomer';
...
[same for other DDLs]