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Ferdinand Xu commented on HIVE-10324: ------------------------------------- Hi [~leftylev], here comes the output for help option. And I have updated the fixed version. If you need any other information about metatool, feel free to let me know. Thank you! {noformat} Initializing HiveMetaTool.. usage: metatool -dryRun Perform a dry run of updateLocation changes.When run with the dryRun option updateLocation changes are displayed but not persisted. dryRun is valid only with the updateLocation option. -executeJDOQL <query-string> execute the given JDOQL query -help print this message -listFSRoot print the current FS root locations -serdePropKey <serde-prop-key> Specify the key for serde property to be updated. serdePropKey option is valid only with updateLocation option. -tablePropKey <table-prop-key> Specify the key for table property to be updated. tablePropKey option is valid only with updateLocation option. -updateLocation <new-loc> <old-loc> Update FS root location in the metastore to new location.Both new-loc and old-loc should be valid URIs with valid host names and schemes.When run with the dryRun option changes are displayed but are not persisted. When run with the serdepropKey/tablePropKey option updateLocation looks for the serde-prop-key/table-prop-key that is specified and updates its value if found. {noformat} > Hive metatool should take table_param_key to allow for changes to avro > serde's schema url key > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-10324 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10324 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Affects Versions: 1.1.0 > Reporter: Szehon Ho > Assignee: Ferdinand Xu > Fix For: 1.2.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-10324.1.patch, HIVE-10324.patch, > HIVE-10324.patch.WIP > > > HIVE-3443 added support to change the serdeParams from 'metatool > updateLocation' command. > However, in avro it is possible to specify the schema via the tableParams: > {noformat} > CREATE TABLE `testavro`( > `test` string COMMENT 'from deserializer') > ROW FORMAT SERDE > 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' > STORED AS INPUTFORMAT > 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' > OUTPUTFORMAT > 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' > TBLPROPERTIES ( > 'avro.schema.url'='hdfs://namenode:8020/tmp/test.avsc', > 'kite.compression.type'='snappy', > 'transient_lastDdlTime'='1427996456') > {noformat} > Hence for those tables the 'metatool updateLocation' will not help. > This is necessary in case like upgrade the namenode to HA where the absolute > paths have changed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)