I never needed the -S. I would just call it with -e, but yeah, that's the basic idea. The output is gathered in the remaining optional arguments to exec().
On Oct 18, 2012, at 22:15 , MiaoMiao wrote: > What php, you are using exec('hive -S -e "select * from some_table"') > or something like that in php? > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> wrote: >> If I run a select command on the command line with -e it works. If I run >> the same command inside hive (without -e) it still works...but if I exec it >> with a -e from php (so obviously the apache user), I get "Error in semantic >> analysis: Unable to fetch table [tablename]". Bear in mind that this >> overall system worked perfectly for weeks. I haven't modified the code or >> anything. What did change was I had to reinstall hadoop and hive and I'm >> sure some configuration parameter is not correct now. I found some Google >> references to this error but no clear-but solutions. >> >> What does this error mean and how do I fix it? >> >> Thanks. ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com music.keithwiley.com "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter." -- Yoda ________________________________________________________________________________