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Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-13670: ----------------------------------------- !set still lists them, and is able to interact with it in the same way we interact with other !set variables, they are inside a "beeline.vars.*" namespace. And that is the naming scheme in use as well. For the above examples, you'll get something like this: {noformat} beeline.vars.lastConnectedUrl=jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default/ beeline.vars.blue=jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default/ ... (and so on for any other saved-saved variable you may use) {noformat} basically, what changed with !set is really syntactic sugar for not specifying a "beeline.vars." prefix for any of these variables. Agreed, I do not have a good way to unset them. I see that is true for !set in general across the board as well. I can add a !unset command to add that in. == As to the fallback, we do not try to use the connect string and wait to see if it's a failure - we test if the connect string passed to us is a valid URI. If it is a uri, we use it. (The error checking is the URI parsing, not connecting). If it isn't a URI, we conculde it must be a varname and use it if that's available. Adding a '$' sigil can be done easily to denote whether something is a variable or not, but I thought it unnecessary here, since URI parsing is so widely a standard. I do not mind switching on this if you feel strongly about it. > Improve Beeline reconnect semantics > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-13670 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13670 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.1.0 > Reporter: Sushanth Sowmyan > Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan > Attachments: HIVE-13670.2.patch, HIVE-13670.patch > > > For most users of beeline, chances are that they will be using it with a > single HS2 instance most of the time. In this scenario, having them type out > a jdbc uri for HS2 every single time to !connect can get tiresome. Thus, we > should improve semantics so that if a user does a successful !connect, then > we must store the last-connected-to-url, so that if they do a !close, and > then a !reconnect, then !reconnect should attempt to connect to the last > successfully used url. > Also, if they then do a !save, then that last-successfully-used url must be > saved, so that in subsequent sessions, they can simply do !reconnect rather > than specifying a url for !connect. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)