So, I'm back to square one. Is there *any* way I can do this using Hive > alone? I'm fine with running the data through multiple passes, putting it in > temporary tables, if need be. Should I be looking at UDF or SerDe to achieve > this? >
One way, I'm trying out is to have multiple UDFs, each taking the raw log entry as input and returning a specific field. For example, extract_ip_address, extract_apache_uid, extract_uri, etc. Anything simpler? Saurabh. -- http://nandz.blogspot.com http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com
