Hi Stephen,
If you wish to setup a mysql metastore, you need to have the following in
your hive-site.xml,
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
<value>jdbc:mysql://MYHOST/metastore</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
<value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName</name>
<value>hiveuser</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name>
<value>password</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>datanucleus.autoCreateSchema</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>datanucleus.fixedDatastore</name>
<value>true</value>
</property>
Thanks.
Shreepadma
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It appears that I were missing the *hive.metastore.uris* parameter. That
> one was not mentioned in the (several) blogs / tutorials that I had seen.
>
>
> 2012/11/24 Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com>
>
>>
>> It seems the customized hive-site.xml is not being read. It lives under
>> $HIVE_HOME/conf ( which happens to be /shared/hive/conf). I have tried
>> everything there is to try: set HIVE_CONF_DIR=/shared/hive/conf , added
>> --config /shared/hive/conf and added debugging to the hive shell script
>> (bash -x) to ensure that the correct directory is actually getting used
>>
>> The properties inside hive-site.xml are getting ignored: originally set
>> to using mysql , but instead the default derby is getting used. Then tried
>> changing hive.metastore.local between true and false: no difference in
>> behavior - just going to /tmp/$USER for creating the derby no matter what.
>>
>> I wondered whether hive-site.xml maybe has a syntax error and were
>> getting ignored: so removed everything except
>> <configuration></configuration>: still no
>>
>> This is the totally simplified hive-site.xml: it just has enough to try
>> to see if it is actually being read/applied (and it is not..):
>>
>>
>> steve@mithril:/shared/hive/conf$ cat hive-site.xml
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
>>
>> <configuration>
>>
>> <!-- Hive Execution Parameters -->
>> <property>
>> <name>hive.metastore.local</name>
>> <value>false</value>
>> </property>
>>
>> <property>
>> <name>hive.exec.scratchdir</name>
>> <value>/tmp/hive/hive-${user.name}</value>
>> <description>Scratch space for Hive jobs</description>
>> </property>
>>
>> <property>
>> <name>hive.hwi.war.file</name>
>> <value>/shared/hive/lib/hive-hwi-0.9.0.war</value>
>> <description>This is the WAR file with the jsp content for Hive Web
>> Interface</description>
>> </property>
>>
>> </configuration>
>>
>>
>> After running some DDL in hive, for example, no files are created
>> underneath /tmp/hive (instead they are going to /tmp/$USER which is
>> default - as if the custom hive-site.xml never existed.
>>
>>
>>
>
