Hi Bennie, Sounds great! That should be very useful for users. It would be nice to have more jdbc functionality on hive jdbc.
Thanks, Youngwoo 2010/2/3 Bennie Schut <[email protected]> > I've been using the hive jdbc driver more and more and was missing some > functionality which I added > > HiveDatabaseMetaData.getTables > Using "show tables" to get the info from hive. > > HiveDatabaseMetaData.getColumns > Using "describe tablename" to get the columns. > > This makes using something like SQuirreL a lot nicer since you have the > list of tables and just click on the content tab to see what's in the table. > > > I also implemented > HiveResultSet.getObject(String columnName) so you call most get* methods > based on the column name. > > Is it worth making a patch for this? >
