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Zheng Shao commented on HIVE-1272:
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Can you add a test case? Take a look at the ".q" files in 
ql/src/test/clientpositive


> Add SymlinkTextInputFormat to Hive
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1272
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1272
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 0.5.0
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>            Assignee: Guanghao Shen
>         Attachments: HIVE-1272.1.patch
>
>
> We'd like to add a symlink text input format so that we can specify the list 
> of files for a table/partition based on the content of a text file.
> For example, the location of the table is "/user/hive/mytable".
> There is a file called "/user/hive/mytable/myfile.txt".
> Inside the file, there are 2 lines, "/user/myname/textfile1.txt" and 
> "/user/myname/textfile2.txt"
> We can do:
> {code}
> CREATE TABLE mytable (...) STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.SymlinkTextInputFormat' LOCATION 
> '/user/hive/mytable';
> SELECT * FROM mytable;
> {code}
> which will return the content of the 2 files: "/user/myname/textfile1.txt" 
> and "/user/myname/textfile2.txt"

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