"DESCRIBE EXTENDED table_name" does not show that compression is turned on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2250 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2250 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: CLI, Diagnosability Affects Versions: 0.7.0 Environment: RHEL, Full Cloudera stack Reporter: Travis Powell Priority: Critical Commands executed in this order: user@node # hive hive> SET hive.exec.compress.output=true; hive> SET io.seqfile.compression.type=BLOCK; hive> CREATE TABLE table_name ( [...] ) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE; hive> CREATE TABLE staging_table ( [...] ) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t'; hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'file:///root/input/' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE staging_table; hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE table_name SELECT * FROM staging_table; (Map reduce job to change to sequence file...) hive> DESCRIBE EXTENDED table_name; Detailed Table Information Table(tableName:table_name, dbName:benchmarking, owner:root, createTime:1309480053, lastAccessTime:0, retention:0, sd:StorageDescriptor(cols:[FieldSchema(name:session_key, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:remote_address, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:canister_lssn, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:canister_session_id, type:bigint, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:tltsid, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:tltuid, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:tltvid, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:canister_server, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:session_timestamp, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:session_duration, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:hit_count, type:bigint, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:http_user_agent, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:extractid, type:bigint, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:site_link, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:dt, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:hour, type:int, comment:null)], location:hdfs://hadoop2/user/hive/warehouse/benchmarking.db/table_name, inputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat, outputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveSequenceFileOutputFormat, compressed:false, numBuckets:-1, serdeInfo:SerDeInfo(name:null, serializationLib:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe, parameters:{serialization.format= , field.delim= *** SEE ABOVE: Compression is set to FALSE, even though contents of table is compressed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira