Re: How to load hive metadata from conf dir

2013-02-12 Thread Parag Sarda
> >> Back to asking for for metadata for a table. The following script will >> determine the location of a particular partition for an external >> "mydatabase.stocks" table: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> hive -e "describe formatted mydatabase.stocks >&g

Re: How to load hive metadata from conf dir

2013-02-12 Thread Parag Sarda
g, will it be possible for you guys to change your metadata store ? if not then you will need to write a node in your workflow which gets the meta-data and stores it for your next nodes in workflow as Mark said On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Parag Sarda mailto:psa...@walmartlabs.com>>

Re: How to load hive metadata from conf dir

2013-02-12 Thread Parag Sarda
erhaps, you want to take a look at that and see if that fits your use case? Mark On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Parag Sarda mailto:psa...@walmartlabs.com>> wrote: Hello Hive Users, I am writing a program in java which is bundled as JAR and executed using hadoop jar command. I would like

How to load hive metadata from conf dir

2013-02-11 Thread Parag Sarda
Hello Hive Users, I am writing a program in java which is bundled as JAR and executed using hadoop jar command. I would like to access hive metadata (read partitions informations) in this program. I can ask user to set HIVE_CONF_DIR environment variable before calling my program or ask for any re