s.
Thoughts?
(just remembered that there's probably an unfilled issue that drop table should
not be deleting directories for external tables - but probably does right now
..)
-Original Message-
From: Josh Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 3:32 PM
To:
r 28, 2008 3:32 PM
To: hive-user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Re: External tables and existing directory structure
I think this is a pretty common scenario as this is how I was storing
my stuff as well. Would this affect the HiveQL create table statement
at all or just implicitly require that it be or
I think this is a pretty common scenario as this is how I was storing
my stuff as well. Would this affect the HiveQL create table statement
at all or just implicitly require that it be ordered?
Josh
On Nov 28, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Joydeep Sen Sarma wrote:
Hi Johann,
Create external table wit
Hi Johann,
Create external table with the 'location' clause set to ur data would be the
way to go. However - Hive has it's own directory naming scheme for partitions
('='). So just pointing to a directory with
subdirectories would not work.
So right now case one would have to move or copy the
