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Joydeep Sen Sarma commented on HIVE-74:
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where are the pools for the combinefileinputformat created (one per table)?

> Hive can use CombineFileInputFormat for when the input are many small files
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-74
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-74
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>             Fix For: 0.2.0
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>         Attachments: hiveCombineSplit.patch, hiveCombineSplit.patch
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> There are cases when the input to a Hive job are thousands of small files. In 
> this case, there is a mapper for each file. Most of the overhead for spawning 
> all these mappers can be avoided if Hive used CombineFileInputFormat 
> introduced via HADOOP-4565

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