hey carl, Isint there any way to enable it, if not, what is this error about ? what is the problem ?
*------------------------* Cheers !!! Siddharth Tiwari Have a refreshing day !!! From: c...@cloudera.com Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:34:03 -0700 Subject: Re: Hive DDL issue To: user@hive.apache.org Hive does not work on Cygwin. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Siddharth Tiwari <siddharth.tiw...@live.com> wrote: encountering following issur pls help, on cygwin windows hive> show tables; FAILED: Hive Internal Error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException(java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: file:C:/cygwin/tmp//siddharth/hive_2011-08-18_ 04-08-25_850_5502285238716420526) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: file:C:/cygwin/tmp//siddharth/hive_2011-08-18_04-08-25_850_550228523871642 0526 at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:140) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:132) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.getScratchDir(Context.java:142) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.getLocalScratchDir(Context.java:168) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.getLocalTmpFileURI(Context.java:282) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:205) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:238) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:340) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:736) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:164) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:241) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:456) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: file:C:/cygwin/tmp//siddharth/hive_2011-08-18_04-08-25_850_5502285238716420526 at java.net.URI.checkPath(URI.java:1787) at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:735) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:137) ... 16 more *------------------------* Cheers !!! Siddharth Tiwari Have a refreshing day !!!