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Gopal V commented on HIVE-9915: ------------------------------- [~leftylev]: While reviewing Gunther's patch I ran into some questions which the doc answered, but weren't obvious. The quadrant of native vs non-native and external vs managed needs to be drawn somehow for this to explain the feature in the docs. || \ || Native || Non-Native || | Managed | hive.default.fileformat.managed (or fall back to the other) | not covered by default file-formats | | External | hive.default.fileformat | not covered by default file-formats | > Allow specifying file format for managed tables > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9915 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9915 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: File Formats > Reporter: Gunther Hagleitner > Assignee: Gunther Hagleitner > Attachments: HIVE-9915.1.patch, HIVE-9915.2.patch > > > We already allow setting a system wide default format. In some cases it's > useful though to specify this only for managed tables, or distinguish > external and managed via two variables. You might want to set a more > efficient (than text) format for managed tables, but leave external to text > (as they often are log files etc.) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)