Thanks. That was exactly the problem. How do I NOT use the local
metastore? I want this table to be available when I am in other
directories and also want it to be available to other users of the
system.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Raghu Murthy<[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like you are using a local metastore and you started hive from a
> different location when you created the table vs when you are trying to
> query the table. Look for the directory metastore_db and start hive from its
> parent directory. That might fix the problem.
>
>
> On 7/21/09 6:21 PM, "Vijay Kumar Adhikari" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I had create a tables using hive and also uploaded some data using
>> 'data load infile'. I also queried that table and everything looked
>> fine at that point. I exited hive and logged in after some time and
>> the table is gone. My table is called 'netflow'. Here is what I get,
>>
>> hive> select distinct minute from netflow;
>> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 1:28 Table not found netflow
>> hive> show tables;
>> OK
>> Time taken: 0.754 seconds
>> hive>
>>
>> I checked the /user/hive/warehouse/netflow folder and the files
>> uploaded using 'load data infile' are still there. What's wrong? How
>> do I get back that table?
>>
>> vijay...@master:~$
>> vijay...@master:~$ bin/hadoop dfs -ls /user/hive/warehouse/netflow
>> Found 4 items
>> -rw-r--r--   2 viadhi supergroup 36665382163 2009-07-17 18:52
>> /user/hive/warehouse/netflow/09-00.txt
>> -rw-r--r--   2 viadhi supergroup 35821700130 2009-07-18 08:25
>> /user/hive/warehouse/netflow/09-01.txt
>> -rw-r--r--   2 viadhi supergroup 34926258587 2009-07-18 19:34
>> /user/hive/warehouse/netflow/09-02.txt
>> -rw-r--r--   2 viadhi supergroup 33727615560 2009-07-19 09:15
>> /user/hive/warehouse/netflow/09-03.txt
>> vijay...@master:~$
>>
>>
>> --
>> Vijay
>
>



-- 
Vijay

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