I'm using Hive 0.7.0. Yeah, this is out of my expectation.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No. Variable substitution works for anything. Likely your version of hive is
> old and does not support this at all.
>
>
> On Friday, August 31, 2012, Yue Guan <pipeha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, there
>>
>> Is variable substitution good for tables? This is what I tried:
>>
>> set table_name=test_table;
>> explain select * from ${hiveconf:table_name};
>>
>> FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:22 cannot recognize input '$' in join source
>>
>> So I just want to confirm that variable substitution is only good for
>> column names?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
