Re: Question about documentation for Hive in general

2012-06-14 Thread Edward Capriolo
The indexes would not make sense on storage handler tables. They attempt to make an index of data->dfs block. Then that information is used to prune blocks from the job, this would not make sense for storage handlers because the data is not directly backed by blocks. Edward On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 a

Re: Question about documentation for Hive in general

2012-06-14 Thread Lars Francke
Edward, thanks for your reply. > As you may have heard myself and some others (Dean, Jason) are working > on the programming hive book. Yeah, heard about that and I'm looking forward to it! > I recently stumbed onto the really amazing thrift raw bytes serde. Who > knew that hive table can be de

Re: Question about documentation for Hive in general

2012-06-12 Thread Edward Capriolo
Lars, Great work. What is it with people named Lars that are into writing documentation? As you may have heard myself and some others (Dean, Jason) are working on the programming hive book. I recently stumbed onto the really amazing thrift raw bytes serde. Who knew that hive table can be define