Re: drop table - external - aws

2017-05-17 Thread Edward Capriolo
Im pretty sure schema tool does this for people who convert to ha name node. On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Neil Jonkers wrote: > Hi, > > Inspecting the Hive Metastore tables. > Table SDS has a location field. > > If for reason this does not work: > "ALTER TABLE ... SET LOCATION ... ?" > > Manually

Re: drop table - external - aws

2017-05-17 Thread Neil Jonkers
Hi, Inspecting the Hive Metastore tables. Table SDS has a location field. If for reason this does not work: "ALTER TABLE ... SET LOCATION ... ?" Manually updating the SDS metadata table is an option : update SDS set location = "hdfs://Node:8020/user/hive/warehouse/t" where ... On Wed, May 17

Re: drop table - external - aws

2017-05-17 Thread Furcy Pin
for that, sublime text + multi-line edit is your friend ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paR5m6m-Nw On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Stephen Sprague wrote: > yeah. that's a potential idea too. gotta put the time in to script it > with 200+ tables though. > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:07 AM,

Re: drop table - external - aws

2017-05-17 Thread Stephen Sprague
yeah. that's a potential idea too. gotta put the time in to script it with 200+ tables though. On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Furcy Pin wrote: > Did you try ALTER TABLE ... SET LOCATION ... ? maybe it could have worked. > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Vihang Karajgaonkar > wrote: > >

Re: drop table - external - aws

2017-05-17 Thread Stephen Sprague
hi vihang, here's how to duplicate (hive version 2.1.0). 1. install hadoop on a host called "test-nn" 2. install hive on a host called "hive-client" and use a metastore on "hive-client" (or anywhere else except "test-nn"). 3. using hive on "hive-client" do this: create external table foo(a int)

Re: drop table - external - aws

2017-05-17 Thread Furcy Pin
Did you try ALTER TABLE ... SET LOCATION ... ? maybe it could have worked. On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Vihang Karajgaonkar wrote: > This is interesting and possibly a bug. Did you try changing them to > managed tables and then dropping or truncating them? How do we reproduce > this on our

Re: drop table - external - aws

2017-05-17 Thread Vihang Karajgaonkar
This is interesting and possibly a bug. Did you try changing them to managed tables and then dropping or truncating them? How do we reproduce this on our setup? On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Stephen Sprague wrote: > fwiw. i ended up re-creating the ec2 cluster with that same host name just >