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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-1558: --------------------------------------- I created a DualInputFormat that can be used to easily create a dual table. https://github.com/edwardcapriolo/DualInputFormat. > introducing the "dual" table > ---------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1558 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1558 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Ning Zhang > Assignee: Marcin Kurczych > > The "dual" table in MySQL and Oracle is very convenient in testing UDFs or > constructing rows without reading any other tables. > If dual is the only data source we could leverage the local mode execution. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira