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External table from external location

210227
New Contributor III

Hi, 

I'm creating external table from existing external location and am a bit puzzled as to what permissions I need for it or what is the correct way of defining the S3 path with wildcards. 

This:

create external table if not exists test_catalogue_dev.bronze.test_external
using csv
location 's3://test-data/full/2023/01/*/'
OPTIONS(
recursiveFileLookup "true",
ignoreExtension "true",
infereSchema "true"
)
returns java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException, yet:

 

create external table if not exists test_catalogue_dev.bronze.test_external
using csv
location 's3://test-data/full/2023/01/01/'
OPTIONS(
recursiveFileLookup "true",
ignoreExtension "true",
infereSchema "true"
)
happily creates one. 
Is  using a wildcard trying to put something in the external bucket? 
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210227
New Contributor III

Just for the reference, the wildcard is not needed in this case, just a misleading error message. In this case 's3://test-data/full/2023/01/' instead of 's3://test-data/full/2023/01/*/' was the correct PATH

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210227
New Contributor III

Just for the reference, the wildcard is not needed in this case, just a misleading error message. In this case 's3://test-data/full/2023/01/' instead of 's3://test-data/full/2023/01/*/' was the correct PATH

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