Hi,

This query is with reference to the Indexing patch mentioned in the following 
link.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-678

I applied the patch (hive-678-2009-07-25) on the Hive revision 796926 and built 
the code.

Thereafter, created a small table pokes with two fields foo and bar and also 
created index on this table with type projection as follows.

hive>CREATE TABLE pokes(foo int , bar string) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS 
TERMINATED BY ',';

hive>CREATE INDEX pokes_index1 TYPE PROJECTION ON TABLE pokes1(foo,bar);
OK
Time taken: 0.159 seconds

hive> select a.* from pokes_index1 a;
OK
Time taken: 0.073 seconds

As seen in the last query, I am not able to see the contents of index. Is there 
any way to see the contents of index table?

Secondly, three kinds of indexes have been mentioned in the link namely, 
Projection, Summary and Compact. Could somebody explain the scenarions in which 
we can use them.
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