No, there is no way to re-attach. Because hive works with side-directories and moves data at the last step the job is not salvageable. Your should kill the job from the hadoop job tracker.
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Martin Meyer <mar...@chitika.com> wrote: > Hi all - > > I've just had a hive CLI process die wile a job was running. Even > though the CLI has terminated, the hadoop job is still being > processed. Is there any way to either: > > a) reattach the hive command to an already-running job, or > > b) read the query results out of HDFS when the job actually finishes? > > Thanks, > Martin Meyer