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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-5793: -------------------------------------- [~thejas], your request isn't in the description yet and I'm not sure what you meant: {quote} In the default.xml description, can you also state if hive.fetch.task.conversion.threshold is set to less than 0, are the file lengths going to be checked (I see that it doesn't.) ? {quote} The default value is -1, and the description says "Input threshold for applying hive.fetch.task.conversion. If target table is native, input length is calculated by summation of file lengths. If it's not native, storage handler for the table can optionally implement org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.InputEstimator interface." So does a negative value mean that file lengths are not calculated, therefore fetch task conversion will always occur if hive.fetch.task.conversion is true? Also, the threshold units aren't entirely obvious. Bytes? Apparently the threshold is compared with a calculated or estimated input length, unless the threshold is a negative number. But isn't that the same as a threshold of zero? I can change the description in a new JIRA ticket, since I have other fixes to make, but I need help figuring this out. > Update hive-default.xml.template for HIVE-4002 > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5793 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5793 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Configuration > Reporter: Navis > Assignee: Navis > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-5793.1.patch.txt, HIVE-5793.2.patch.txt, > HIVE-5793.3.patch.txt > > > Addressing > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3990?focusedCommentId=13818388&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13818388 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)