RE: Find table location

2013-06-27 Thread Peter Marron
rmat is created in? 2) How do I get hold of a HiveMetaStoreClient object? Many thanks for your help. Z From: Nitin Pawar [mailto:nitinpawar...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 June 2013 09:56 To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Find table location from Alex's blog http://mapredit.blogspot.in/

Re: Find table location

2013-06-27 Thread Nitin Pawar
from Alex's blog http://mapredit.blogspot.in/2013/05/get-all-extended-hive-tables-with.html if you want to do it programatically then you will need to look at HiveMetaStoreClient If both of these are not what you are looking for then sorry I will need a little more details on your question On

Find table location

2013-06-27 Thread Peter Marron
Hi, Hopefully a simple question. Given that I have a table name (as a String) is there an API call that I can use to obtain the location of the table? Assume that my code is executing in a custom InputFormat to define the context. (I'm running "inside" a Hive query so I assume that there's a way