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Tim Goodman commented on HIVE-887:
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Hmm, apparently I have to do:
SET hive.fetch.task.conversion=more;
(default was hive.fetch.task.conversion=minimal)
> Allow SELECT <col> without a mapreduce job
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>
> Key: HIVE-887
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-887
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Eric Sun
> Assignee: Ning Zhang
> Fix For: 0.10.0
>
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> I often find myself needing to take a quick look at a particular column of a
> Hive table.
> I usually do this by doing a
> SELECT * from <table> LIMIT 20;
> from the CLI. Doing this is pretty fast since it doesn't require a mapreduce
> job. However, it's tough to examine just 1 or 2 columns when the table is
> very wide.
> So, I might do
> SELECT <col> from <table> LIMIT 20;
> but it's much slower since it requires a map-reduce. It'd be really
> convenient if a map-reduce wasn't necessary.
> Currently a good work around is to do
> hive -e "select * from table" | cut --key=n
> but it'd be more convenient if it were built in since it alleviates the need
> for column counting.
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