Re: Hive Insert overwrite creating a single file with large block size

2015-01-09 Thread Moore, Douglas
5 17:04:08 -0800 To: mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Hive Insert overwrite creating a single file with large block size You can control block size by setting dfs.block.size. However, I think you might be asking how to control the size of and number of files generated on insert. Is that co

Re: Hive Insert overwrite creating a single file with large block size

2015-01-09 Thread Slava Markeyev
You can control block size by setting dfs.block.size. However, I think you might be asking how to control the size of and number of files generated on insert. Is that correct? On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Buntu Dev wrote: > I got a bunch of small Avro files (<5MB) and have a table against tho

Hive Insert overwrite creating a single file with large block size

2015-01-09 Thread Buntu Dev
I got a bunch of small Avro files (<5MB) and have a table against those files. I created a new table and did an 'INSERT OVERWRITE' selecting from the existing table but did not find any option to provide the file block size. It currently creates a single file per partition. How do I specify the ou