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ASF GitHub Bot commented on HAWQ-760: ------------------------------------- Github user ictmalili commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-hawq/pull/679#discussion_r65126732 --- Diff: tools/doc/hawqregister_help --- @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +COMMAND NAME: hawq register + +Register parquet files generated by other system into the corrsponding table in HAWQ + +***************************************************** +SYNOPSIS +***************************************************** + +hawq register [-h hostname] [-p port] [-U username] <databasename> <tablename> <hdfspath> + +hawq register help +hawq register -? + +hawq register --version + +***************************************************** +DESCRIPTION +***************************************************** + +"hawq register" is a utility to register file(s) on HDFS into +the table in HAWQ. It moves the file in the path(if path +refers to a file) or files under the path(if path refers to a +directory) into the table directory corresponding to the table, +and then update the table meta data to include the files. + +To use "hawq register", HAWQ must have been started. + +Currently "hawq register" supports parquet tables only. +User have to make sure that the meta data of the parquet file(s) +and the table are consistent. +The table to be registered into should not be hash distributed, which +is created by using "distributed by" statement when creating that table. + +***************************************************** +Arguments +***************************************************** + +<databasename> + +Name of the database to be operated on. + +<tablename> + +Name of the table to be registered into. + +<hdfspath> + +The path of the file or the directory containing the files +that will be registered. + +***************************************************** +OPTIONS +***************************************************** + +-? (help) + +Displays the online help. + +--version + +Displays the version of this utility. + +***************************************************** +CONNECTION OPTIONS +***************************************************** + +-h hostname + + Specifies the host name of the machine on which the HAWQ master + database server is running. If not specified, reads from the + environment variable $PGHOST or defaults to localhost. --- End diff -- What's the meaning for "or"? It may confuse user. I think we can change "or" to "which". > Hawq register > ------------- > > Key: HAWQ-760 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-760 > Project: Apache HAWQ > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Command Line Tools > Reporter: Yangcheng Luo > Assignee: Lei Chang > > Users sometimes want to register data files generated by other system like > hive into hawq. We should add register function to support registering > file(s) generated by other system like hive into hawq. So users could > integrate their external file(s) into hawq conveniently. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)