Re: Altering the Metastore on EC2

2014-08-14 Thread Stephen Sprague
i'll take a stab at this. - probably no reason. - if you can. is there a derby client s/t you can issue the command: "alter table COLUMNS_V2 modify TYPE_NAME varchar(32672)". otherwise maybe use the mysql or postgres metastores (instead of derby) and run that alter command after the install. - t

Altering the Metastore on EC2

2014-08-11 Thread David Beveridge
We are creating an Hive schema for reading massive JSON files. Our JSON schema is rather large, and we have found that the default metastore schema for Hive cannot work for us as-is. To be specific, one field in our schema has about 17KB of nested structs within it. Unfortunately, it appears th