I think there was an issue with reading views from Pig using HCatLoader
(0.4.x). Views definitely seem cleaner though.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Stephen Sprague wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> I guess there are several ways to do it and your method seems to be one of
> them. I have a need for the sa
Hi Tim,
I guess there are several ways to do it and your method seems to be one of
them. I have a need for the same thing and i create a view instead. It
points to the date that is the latest partition.
eg. create view foo_latest_vw as select * from foo_table where date= #and date is the partiti
btw ... this appears to work in my env - hive 0.9.0 (cdh 4.1.1) ... let me
know if there's any drawbacks to this approach.
Thanks.
Tim
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Timothy Potter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to implement a "latest" partition concept for one of my tables
> and believe I can sim
Hi,
I'd like to implement a "latest" partition concept for one of my tables and
believe I can simply update the location using alter table X partition
(date='latest') set location 'foo';
This assumes two partitions can point at the same location?
My other question is what happens to current runn
