No, we would need to copy the file back from HDFS. But I think there is no overhead - we are doing the same thing as INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY, I think.
Zheng On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Min Zhou <[email protected]> wrote: > Can external table stored at a local directory? > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Zheng Shao <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You can first create an external table and then insert into that table. >> >> Zheng >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Min Zhou <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Any helps? >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> Min >>> -- >>> My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and >>> bytecode based virtual machine. >>> >>> My profile: >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay >>> My blog: >>> http://coderplay.javaeye.com >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Yours, >> Zheng >> > > > > -- > My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and > bytecode based virtual machine. > > My profile: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay > My blog: > http://coderplay.javaeye.com > -- Yours, Zheng
