Alan,

I don't think the path is correct in your query, it is best to set up workspaces in the HDFS plugin
http://drill.apache.org/docs/file-system-storage-plugin/

See if that works.

--Andries



> On May 21, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Alan Miller <Alan.Miller@synopsys.com> wrote:
> 
> First off, this is my first attempt at drill,
> (BTW: congratulations on the release ;-)
> so perhaps I misunderstood something
> 
> I want to query my parquet files on HDFS.
> 
> I setup the 1.0 release on a machine (node1)
> that already had CDH5 and a working Zookeeper.
> With the hdfs storage plugin config below I can query a parquet file
> on the local machine just fine.
> E.g.:
> 0: jdbc:drill:drillbit=localhost> select a,b,c FROM hdfs.`/hdfs/path/test.par` limit 5;
> 
>  ## drill-override.conf
>  drill.exec: {
>   cluster-id: "mydrillcluster",
>    zk.connect: "node1:2181"
>  }
>  ## storage plugin config
>  {
>    "type": "file",
>    "enabled": true,
>    "connection": "hdfs://127.0.0.1:8020/",
>    "workspaces": null,
>    "formats": {
>      "parquet": {
>        "type": "parquet"
>      }
>    }
>  }
> 
> Can I query a remote HDFS, by simply pointing the storage plugin config?
> After changing the IP address in the connection parameter above, I get this error.
> 
> 0: jdbc:drill:drillbit=localhost> select a,b,c  FROM hdfs.`/tmp/test.par` limit 5;
> 
> Error: PARSE ERROR: From line 1, column 38 to line 1, column 41: Table 'hdfs./tmp/test.par' not found
> [Error Id: 4156f66c-3dac-4e87-b7f8-f0bdc19d57d7 on node1.company.com:31010] (state=,code=0)
> .....
> Caused by: org.apache.drill.common.exceptions.UserRemoteException: PARSE ERROR: From line 1, column 38 to line 1, column 41: Table 'hdfs./tmp/test.par' not found
> 
> But the namenode:port/path is correct because this workds from node1:
> 
> [alan@node1 drill]$ hdfs dfs -fs hdfs://10.10.10.10:8020/ -ls /tmp/test.par
> -rw-r--r--   1 alan supergroup    4947359 2015-05-21 13:55 /tmp/test.par
> 
> 
> Alan