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Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-7342: ---------------------------------------- I'm +1 on the .2.patch. Having said that, I also wanted to bring up one more possible corner case that seems to exist, one that I do not think needs solving(at least not right away - might be worth opening a follow up to declare if a confvar can be overridden by a conf or not), but one that exists anyway. Consider the case of a hive client, that loads a hive-site.xml, and finds that the metastore uris parameter is blank. Thus, it expects that it is a local metastore operation, and thus, loads hivemetastore-site.xml. In this config, however, say the uris parameter is not blank. Then, at connect time, that hive client will act upon the uris value, which tells it that it is not a local metastore, and connects out to the referred url. However, this hive client has now loaded the metastore conf for other parameters, while still being a remote client that talks to a metastore. > support hiveserver2,metastore specific config files > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-7342 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7342 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Configuration, HiveServer2, Metastore > Reporter: Thejas M Nair > Assignee: Thejas M Nair > Attachments: HIVE-7342.1.patch, HIVE-7342.2.patch > > > There is currently a single configuration file for all components in hive. > ie, components such as hive cli, hiveserver2 and metastore all read from the > same hive-site.xml. > It will be useful to have a server specific hive-site.xml, so that you can > have some different configuration value set for a server. For example, you > might want to enabled authorization checks for hiveserver2, while disabling > the checks for hive cli. The workaround today is to add any component > specific configuration as a commandline (-hiveconf) argument. > Using server specific config files (eg hiveserver2-site.xml, > metastore-site.xml) that override the entries in hive-site.xml will make the > configuration much more easy to manage. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)