As you can run the hadoop dfs commands from inside Hive, you can put both
the commands in a script file and run the script file using hive. These are
still two different commands but are together at one place and can be
executed in the same environment in one go.
-Ramki.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at
My understanding is that renaming and external table doesn't rename the
corresponding HDFS directory to match. I would like to do this; I want to
rename the table in Hive and also rename the HDFS directory so they match (they
already match with the old name). I'm not sure how to do this. I'm
https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-ddl.html#LanguageManualDDL-Ren
ameTable
The link mentions that it changes the directory also. If not you can
change the table name and then use alter table table name set location
new location Let us know what you see.
On 3/7/13 3:29 PM, Keith Wiley
You can rename the LOCATION with an ALTER TABLE command. I don't believe
there's a single, atomic statement to rename both the table and the
directory.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com wrote:
My understanding is that renaming and external table doesn't rename
