Create permanent UDF's not using "Create temporary function"

2012-06-24 Thread Jasper Knulst
Hi I have been successfully using UDF's in Hive for a while. So I started wondering what it would take to use non-temporary functions so you don't have to bother going through the same commands "add jars" & "create temporary function" for every session. Why is it not possible to register function

XML Serde

2012-06-24 Thread Sumit Kumar
Hi, So i looked for a generic approach for handling xml files in hive but found none and thought i could use the concepts from json-serde ( http://code.google.com/p/hive-json-serde/) in creating a generic xml serde. XPath was something that came immediately in my mind and should work in the same w