Re: Need urgent suggestion on the below issue

2012-06-11 Thread Matthew Byrd
Hi Jon, I've just encountered the same issue. I was wondering if you would be so kind as to elaborate, on why you'd be best off manipulating the metadata as opposed to trying to manipulate the DNS? I had a go at having the Namenode use a dns alias Namenode, then the hive metadata did indeed conta

Re: Custom SerDe -- tracking down stack trace

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Byrd
Hi Evan, Did you look in your hive.log file? Mine is found in /tmp/$USER/ ... usually where stack traces from hive cli show up If I'm not mistaken. Have you tried hooking up a debugger to hive yet also? I'm guessing this is how you knew the null pointer was being thrown on deserialize? what is actu