If you kill the client process before the query is done, then the temporary files is kept in the hive scratch folder. In such case the insertion operations is skipped, too.
2010/9/28 bharath v <bharathvissapragada1...@gmail.com> > Hi all, > > Can anyone tell me how to prevent hive from deleting the intermediate > outputs produced while executing an SQL query.. > > While running the job I can list them in the tmp/ folder but they are > getting deleted as soon as the job is over. Is there any way to > prevent this ? > > Thanks > -- Best Regards, Ted Xu
