Got it, and thank you for details. Sure, I'm interested in this
contribution for hive support because I need this feature. However, I need
more investigation for now. I'll ask more questions after I look into more.

Best regards,
Hyunsik Choi

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:08 AM Ryan Blue <rb...@netflix.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi Hyunsik,
>
> The iceberg-hive module is used to track Iceberg tables in a Hive
> metastore. Right now, there is no support in Hive for reading Iceberg
> tables.
>
> I don't know of any efforts to add Iceberg table support to Hive. I've
> heard that it wouldn't be too difficult, but it would require implementing
> a new RawStore and also some way to decide which RawStore to use when
> loading a table because iceberg-hive uses the same namespace as regular
> Hive tables in the Hive Metastore.
>
> Are you interested in contributing support to Hive?
>
> rb
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:30 PM Hyunsik Choi <hyun...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have couple of questions about iceberg-hive module. I tried to create a
>> hive table through o.a.iceberg.hive.HiveTables. It could create a hive
>> table successfully, but I couldn't read this table from Hive actually due
>> to the following error:
>>
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. No enum constant
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TableType.iceberg
>>
>> According to the error message and source code, iceberg-hive module seems
>> to make use only a hive metastore for iceberg tables in Spark rather than
>> enabling hive to read iceberg for now. Is it right?
>>
>> Also, I'd like to know the roadmap for hive support.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Hyunsik Choi
>>
>
>
> --
> Ryan Blue
> Software Engineer
> Netflix
>

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