HIVE_PATH_ALREADY_EXISTS

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Hi all, I run a simple query on Athena using Athena engine version 3.

create table if not exists "test"."total_customer" as 
select *
from "A_customer" 
union all
select *
from "B_customer"

And I faced this error: HIVE_PATH_ALREADY_EXISTS: Target directory for table 'test.total_customer' already exists: s3://xxxx/total_customer/2022/11/27/tables/ef02d72d-75e2-4b14-b53f-95d591094cfa. You may need to manually clean the data at location 's3://xxxx/total_customer/2022/11/27/tables/ef02d72d-75e2-4b14-b53f-95d591094cfa' before retrying. Athena will not delete data in your account.

The weird thing is it works perfectly when I use UNION instead of UNION ALL. So I'm not sure if this is Athena engine version 3 error or the query error.

Thank you guys for taking a look at my issue.

1 Answer
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Thank you for reporting this and sorry for the inconvenience. There is a fix that will go out for this shortly.

AWS
Theo
answered a year ago

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