Edward, thanks for your reply.
> As you may have heard myself and some others (Dean, Jason) are working > on the programming hive book. Yeah, heard about that and I'm looking forward to it! > I recently stumbed onto the really amazing thrift raw bytes serde. Who > knew that hive table can be defined only with the named of a Thrift > class and magically the column meta data just auto-populates? It's exactly that kind of stuff that I mean. There are so many great things in Hive that no one knows about :) > 1) They work and can accelerate some types of queries but there is > more work to be done Okay, thanks. Any idea if they work with external (e.g. HBase) tables? I found conflicting information. > 2) I dont know, I'll ask again maybe on the user list > 3) No the docs on binary are not fully accurate Same as 2) then but I'll look at the patch first. I might come back to the list or JIRA with questions like this in the future. I hope that's okay. cheers, Lars
