Charles, Hive 0.8.X is right around the corner. However I can not help wondering asking/noting you say "our policy is to use the CDH releases" yet you are using HCatalog which is still in the incubator:
http://incubator.apache.org/hcatalog/ You are likely to run into these issues for a while until hive's (metastore) and hcatalog merge. Edward On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Charles Menguy < cmen...@proclivitysystems.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on integrating Hive with HCatalog. My main issue is that > HCatalog makes a call to add_partitions(List<Partitions>), which, correct > me if I'm wrong, was only implemented in Hive 0.8 (currently in 0.7.1 we > only have the add_partition(Partition) method) > > I am currently doing this using a build directly from the Hive svn > repository which is fine. But when we'll be integrating it with our > production cluster, our policy is to use the CDH releases, and currently > the latest release is 0.7.1. > > I couldn't really find any information regarding the release of Hive 0.8, > so I was wondering if maybe I could get some updates here, this could > potentially impact what solution we're going to use for our loading > process. When I build from the SVN I notice the version is up to 0.9, so > I'm guessing 0.8 release might be close around the corner? > > Thanks, > > Charles >
