I believe I can answer my own question: HIVE-1514 was committed on 08/10; my Hive was built on 08/09...
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Leo Alekseyev <dnqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking at http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/LanguageManual/DDL, > where there's a code example of the following: ALTER TABLE table_name > [partitionSpec] SET LOCATION "new location" > > However, when I try to run it, I get > alter table raw_log_proc_test1_renamed2 set location '/tmp/leo/hivetmp2'; > FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:12 cannot recognize input > 'raw_log_proc_test1_renamed2' in alter table statement > > The table definitely exists; I'm using a fairly recent build of Hive. > Is this a bug?.. > I have some tables created outside the Hive warehouse using the > LOCATION keyword; I want to make sure I can consistently rename them > if need be. The "alter table foo rename to bar" on those tables moves > them to Hive warehouse; I want to keep them in HDFS but outside the > warehouse dir. Would appreciate any comments. > > Thanks, > --Leo >
