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title: Define an External Table with Single Row Error Isolation
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The following example logs errors internally in HAWQ and sets an error threshold of 10 errors.

``` sql
=# CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ext_expenses ( name text, date date, amount float4, category text, desc1 text )
   LOCATION ('gpfdist://etlhost-1:8081/*', 'gpfdist://etlhost-2:8082/*')
   FORMAT 'TEXT' (DELIMITER '|')
   LOG ERRORS INTO errortable SEGMENT REJECT LIMIT 10 ROWS;
```

The following example creates an external table, *ext\_expenses*, sets an error threshold of 10 errors, and writes error rows to the table *err\_expenses*.

``` sql
=# CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ext_expenses
     ( name text, date date, amount float4, category text, desc1 text )
   LOCATION ('gpfdist://etlhost-1:8081/*', 'gpfdist://etlhost-2:8082/*')
   FORMAT 'TEXT' (DELIMITER '|')
   LOG ERRORS INTO err_expenses SEGMENT REJECT LIMIT 10 ROWS;
```