Dear Mike Did u try the same using hive-0.7.1 and hadoop-0.20.2 ? try it out once
*------------------------* Cheers !!! Siddharth Tiwari Have a refreshing day !!! Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:59:00 +0200 Subject: Configuring Hive to automatically create _SUCCESS files From: michael.g.n...@googlemail.com To: user@hive.apache.org Hello, is there a way to configure Hive 0.7.1 so that it creates _SUCCESS files similar to Hadoop MapReduce and Pig? Hadoop has the property "mapreduce.fileoutputcommitter.marksuccessfuljobs" (see FileOutputCommitter.java), which is as of Hadoop 0.20.203.0 enabled by default. In Pig 0.9.0, you can enable success files by e.g. setting the property on the command line when running a Pig script (see PIG-1433 [1]): $ pig -Dmapreduce.fileoutputcommitter.marksuccessfuljobs=true ... I have unsuccessfully tried to enable success files in Hive 0.7.1 in combination with Hadoop 0.20.203.0: # has no effect $ hive -hiveconf mapreduce.fileoutputcommitter.marksuccessfuljobs=true ... The job configuration XML file lists the property as being set to true, but Hive will not create a success file. Best, Michael [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1433