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Navis commented on HIVE-7090: ----------------------------- Interesting. I've tried something similar but rather similar with variables in pig than a temporary table. +1 for idea. > Support session-level temporary tables in Hive > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-7090 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7090 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: SQL > Reporter: Gunther Hagleitner > Assignee: Harish Butani > Attachments: HIVE-7090.1.patch > > > It's common to see sql scripts that create some temporary table as an > intermediate result, run some additional queries against it and then clean up > at the end. > We should support temporary tables properly, meaning automatically manage the > life cycle and make sure the visibility is restricted to the creating > connection/session. Without these it's common to see left over tables in > meta-store or weird errors with clashing tmp table names. > Proposed syntax: > CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE .... > CTAS, CTL, INSERT INTO, should all be supported as usual. > Knowing that a user wants a temp table can enable us to further optimize > access to it. E.g.: temp tables should be kept in memory where possible, > compactions and merging table files aren't required, ... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)