Reply To: can Hive support select query in the insert statements

insert into table t1 (c1) select c2 from t2;

will work.  The ability to add the columns list (c1 in this case) to the insert was only added in Hive 1.2 (HDP 2.3).  So if you are using an older version you have to make sure and select values in the right order for each column in the insert table.