It seems the customized hive-site.xml is not being read. It lives under
$HIVE_HOME/conf ( which happens to be /shared/hive/conf). I have tried
everything there is to try: set HIVE_CONF_DIR=/shared/hive/conf , added
--config /shared/hive/conf and added debugging to the hive shell script
(bash -x) to ensure that the correct directory is actually getting used
The properties inside hive-site.xml are getting ignored: originally set to
using mysql , but instead the default derby is getting used. Then tried
changing hive.metastore.local between true and false: no difference in
behavior - just going to /tmp/$USER for creating the derby no matter what.
I wondered whether hive-site.xml maybe has a syntax error and were getting
ignored: so removed everything except <configuration></configuration>:
still no
This is the totally simplified hive-site.xml: it just has enough to try to
see if it is actually being read/applied (and it is not..):
steve@mithril:/shared/hive/conf$ cat hive-site.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
<configuration>
<!-- Hive Execution Parameters -->
<property>
<name>hive.metastore.local</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.exec.scratchdir</name>
<value>/tmp/hive/hive-${user.name}</value>
<description>Scratch space for Hive jobs</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.hwi.war.file</name>
<value>/shared/hive/lib/hive-hwi-0.9.0.war</value>
<description>This is the WAR file with the jsp content for Hive Web
Interface</description>
</property>
</configuration>
After running some DDL in hive, for example, no files are created
underneath /tmp/hive (instead they are going to /tmp/$USER which is
default - as if the custom hive-site.xml never existed.
