Prasad, my query was more about the concept. Not the syntax. I hope this will still work when hive 0.4 is released. I'm basing a lot on it.
On 8/4/09, Prasad Chakka <[email protected]> wrote: > Quotes should work. > > Prasad > > > ________________________________ > From: Saurabh Nanda <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:43:34 -0700 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Passing parameters to custom map/reduce scripts > > Can I pass parameters to custom map/reduce scripts like this: > > from try_hits > select transform ip_address, aid, uid > using 'parse_logs.rb MY_PARAM_HERE' as ip_address, aid, uid > > I've tried it, and it seems to work, but I just want to be sure whether this > is guaranteed to work under all circumstances. A large part of my current > project depends on this :-) > > PS: Here's what I'm trying to do -- based on a profile ID (which is passed > as a parameter), the map/reduce script is going to look up a DB and fetch a > bunch of regular expressions from there. Based on these dynamically fetched > regular expressions it'll process the input. > > Saurabh. > -- > http://nandz.blogspot.com > http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com > > -- http://nandz.blogspot.com http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com
