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.


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