Hi Vijay, I sent out an inquiry to the guys at aws on 12/21. There is no reply yet. It might be that people are on vacation. Let's wait a bit to see if they can contribute that back to open-source.
Zheng On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Vijay <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to bump the thread again. I thought this was lost during the holidays. > Anybody have any ideas about this? > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Vijay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Amazon Elastic MapReduce version of Hive seems to have a nice feature >> called "Variables." Basically you can define a variable via command-line >> while invoking hive with -d DT=2009-12-09 and then refer to the variable via >> ${DT} within the hive queries. This could be extremely useful. I can't seem >> to find this feature even on trunk. Is this feature currently anywhere in >> the roadmap? > > -- Yours, Zheng
