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Zheng Shao commented on HIVE-1272: ---------------------------------- 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" -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.