Hi, I really like the virtual column feature in 0.7 that allows me to request INPUT__FILE__NAME and see the names of files that are being acted on.
Because I can see the files that are being read, I see that I am spending time querying many, many very large files, most of which I do not need to process because these extra files are in the same s3 bucket location that contains the files I need. The files I do need to process only a represent a subset of all files in the bucket. Nevertheless, the files I am interested in are quite large, and large enough to make copying to hdfs unwieldy. Since I know the files I want to process by name before the scan of all files, can I be more efficient and only process a selection of files from a bucket avoiding those I don't? I guess I am still looking for something likehttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-951 I tried sending this message to the dev list initially, but since I haven't seen a response yet, perhaps this list is more appropriate. Any suggestions or update on HIVE-951 ? Thanks, Avram
