Yes you need to update the metastore db directly for this to be in effect. Regards Bejoy KS
Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: Alok Kumar <alok...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:30:36 To: <u...@hbase.apache.org>; <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: alter external table location with new namenode address Hello, We have hive external table mapped to hbase, now moving from pseudo distributed to fully distributed hadoop cluster. found that hive queries are still pointing to older namenode address ie: hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hive/warehouse/<table-name> as it stores full uri in its derby metastore. Q . what would be the best way to set new namenode address? Alter table command on hive shell to set hdfs location is only possible for native tables!! should i update derby "DB_LOCATION_URI" column directly? Your help/suggestion is highly appreciated Thanks, Alok
