Ok, I went ahead and created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ORC-84 to track it.
.. Owen On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Prasanth Jayachandran < j.prasant...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > Thanks > Prasanth > > > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:59 AM -0700, "Matt Burgess" <mattyb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > +1 > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Elliot West wrote: > > +1 > > > > We're currently having to maintain a very simple internal project that > > delegates to FileDump so that we can peer into Orc files more easily > > because our installed Hive CLI version lacks the more useful FileDump > > features. This would be a welcome addition. > > > > On 19 July 2016 at 17:45, Owen O'Malley wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> I think it would be nice if we made a tool jar to make it easier to > >> invoke the equivalent of orcfiledump from Hive. In particular, I propose > >> that we create a java/tools directory and move FileDump and > JsonFileDump in > >> to it. We can also make an orc-tools.jar that is an uber jar and can be > >> invoked easily from the command line. > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> Owen > >> > > > > > >
