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Todd Lipcon commented on MAPREDUCE-1224:
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Spencer: would you mind uploading this as a unified diff (patch) file?
> Calling "SELECT t.* from <table> AS t" to get meta information is too
> expensive for big tables
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-1224
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1224
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: contrib/sqoop
> Affects Versions: 0.20.1
> Environment: all platforms, generic jdbc driver
> Reporter: Spencer Ho
> Attachments: SqlManager.java
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> The SqlManager uses the query, "SELECT t.* from <table> AS t" to get table
> spec is too expensive for big tables, and it was called twice to generate
> column names and types. For tables that are big enough to be map-reduced,
> this is too expensive to make sqoop useful.
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