On Aug 2, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > Maybe the new 'strorage handlers' would help. Storage handlers tie > together, input formats, serde's and create/drop table functions. a > JDBC backend storage handler would be a pretty neat thing.
Yes, a storage handler for wrapping a JDBC table would be handy. There have been some discussions about using this for exposing the metastore via Hive views (e.g. INFORMATION_SCHEMA). The storage handler support is good for wrapping everything together, but the issue with the split type would still need to be resolved. JVS
