Take a look at DDLTask.describeTable. That is the task run by the executor
to do a describe table. The 'Hive db' argument is a handle to the
metastore client. 'DescTableDesc descTbl' contains the information from
the parser on what table to describe.
Are you doing this just to learn the system
Thanks Alan! I think I should've phrased my question better. Essentially
I'm trying to return an extra field when a user describes a table. Say, you
run `desc formatted foo`, We get some information back like, `table name`,
`database` etc..
I'm trying to return extra information about the table
Hello,
Thank you. I've also CC'ed @hive.apache.org
I went through the dev docs on Hive and got an understanding of the
architecture and the high level overview of how a HiveQL query execution
proceeds. To get a better understanding, I decided to add a new field from
a SQL table when a user
First, my apologies, I thought your first question was sent to dev@hive,
which is the right list. Hence I've removed dev@community from my reply.
If you haven't already you should subscribe to dev@hive.
I'm not 100% sure I understand your question, but here's a place to start.
If you do "create
I think there is some bug with hive-builtins. It does not get
generated until package, but you can not test without it.
so you need to do
ant package
ant test
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Radhika Malik radhika1...@hotmail.com wrote:
A group of us is trying to write some code on Hive as a
Hey Edward,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately we still get the same error. Could there
possibly be a problem in our setup?
Thanks!
Radhika
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 09:45:39 -0400
Subject: Re: Getting Started with Hive
From: edlinuxg...@gmail.com
To: dev@hive.apache.org
I think
A group of us is trying to write some code on Hive as a project for a class.
However, we are having trouble getting started as we have never worked on this
before.
We are trying to follow the instructions on--
https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/howtocontribute.html
We are able to check out the
