What if it isn't a hive table? just an hdfs folder? can I create a temporary
folder and then merge or somehow use the API that invokes the merge job ?
> From: ginz...@hotmail.com
> To: dev@hive.apache.org
> Subject: Small file problem and GenMRFileSink1
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:33:44 +0000
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> Hi,
> I'm not sure weather this belongs in the hive-dev or hive-user.
> I have a folder with many small files.
> I would like to reduce the number of files the way hive merges output .
> I tried to understand from the source of
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.GenMRFileSink1 how to leverage the API to
> submit a job
> that merges output files.
> I think I was able to identify:
> private void createMergeJob(FileSinkOperator fsOp, GenMRProcContext ctx,
> String finalName)
> throws SemanticException
> As the entry point to the logic that performs the operation, but I did not
> find documentation as to how to use it
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> Is there an example that simulates the use of this API call?
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