Does hive/ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/avro_decimal.q violate avro schema evolution?

2016-11-21 Thread RD
I ask because I was re-looking at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4734 and how to support newer data types (Decimal, Varchar, Char) In this qtest, we write using a schema containing a decimal having precision 5 and scale 2 (decimal(5,2)) , but when reading the same data we set the read

Hive 2.x usage

2016-09-14 Thread RD
Hi Folks, We (at my org) are currently planning our move to Hive-2.x. As part of this I wanted to get a sense of how stable the Hive-2.x release is. I thought it would be good to conduct a brief survey on this. I've added a few questions below. It would really be a ton of help if folks could pr