One way to add extra data is to use the alter table ... set tblproperties command:
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/LanguageManual/DDL#Alter_Table_Properties Whatever values you set for that table, it will show up when you do a describe extended in the parameters field. -----Original Message----- From: gaurav jain [mailto:jainy_gau...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:06 PM To: hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org; hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Change output filename Just for debugging purposes, I wanted to have some information in each filename. For Example: Some of the source information of that data. If its not easy to do, then I can have that information somewhere else. I just wanted to confirm that hive does not support this. Regards, Gaurav Jain ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Yang <py...@facebook.com> To: "hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org" <hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org>; "hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org> Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 3:57:42 PM Subject: RE: Change output filename As far as I know, there's no easy way to do so. What's the use case? -----Original Message----- From: gaurav jain [mailto:jainy_gau...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:37 PM To: hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org; hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Change output filename Hi, Is it possible to prefix the output filenames in a hive insert query? Instead of: part-00000 I want to have: $prefix_part-00000 Regards, Gaurav Jain
