Hi Attila, We still use HCatLoader and HCatStorer heavily and would like to retain the support. We are also fixing it to work with Iceberg tables and will be contributing patches for both Hive 3 and Hive 4. So would like the support to be continued with Hive 4.
Regards, Rohini On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:59 AM Alessandro Solimando < alessandro.solima...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 from me, let's just make sure we make a good salame out of it :) > > Best regards, > Alessandro > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 10:50, Attila Turoczy <aturo...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> In Hive we have a pretty old component from 1972 and this is the Pig. Pig >> was cool somewhere in 2008, but nowadays it does not have any value in the >> big data world. Even the last small release of big was 6 years ago in 2017, >> also the pig community has pretty much died. Because this component is >> obsolete I would suggest removing it from Hive 4.0. The hive 3 will still >> contain it, but I think this is a right time to remove those components >> that are not valuable for the community. >> >> What do you think about it? >> >> Ps: If nobody wrote it back, It would mean I could kill the pig (rof rof) >> :) >> >> -Attila >> >
