All occurrences of -hiveconf in the wiki have been changed to
--hiveconf except for one new sentence in the CLI command line options
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Cli#LanguageManualCli-HiveCommandLineOptions
section, which says it's also supported.
The list of
Great thanks for following up. THere might be a number of etl processes in
the wild saying -hiveconf which is why it is important to keep around for
the cli at least.
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Xuefu Zhang xzh...@cloudera.com wrote:
This is just getting more and more interesting. I never
What's the difference between double-dash options and single-dash options?
-- Lefty
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.comwrote:
Great thanks for following up. THere might be a number of etl processes in
the wild saying -hiveconf which is why it is important to
Xuefu just fixed the AdminManual Configuration
wikihttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+Configuration,
changing bin/hive -hiveconf ... to --hiveconf, so I grepped the wiki
archive and found many more cases of single-dash hiveconf than double-dash:
grep -i '\-\-hiveconf' *
I was not around when this change was made but I think we should have kept
the old - dash version. We should consider adding it back.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Lefty Leverenz leftylever...@gmail.comwrote:
Xuefu just fixed the AdminManual Configuration
wiki
I didn't know that -hiveconf is supported. However, from hive -H, double
dashes are seen.
-h hostnameconnecting to Hive Server on remote host
--hiveconf property=value Use value for given property
--hivevar key=value Variable subsitution to apply to hive
OK, so just one of the pages in wiki has changed, and hive behavior
has not changed ? (I have been using -hiveconf, but i haven't verified
that with the tip of the trunk as of now).
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Xuefu Zhang xzh...@cloudera.com wrote:
I didn't know that -hiveconf is supported.
OK, so just one of the pages in wiki has changed, and hive behavior has
not changed
That's right, and a closer look at the wiki shows that all the examples are
-hiveconf except the new change. The only place --hiveconf appears is in
duplications of help messages for the hive command, the old
This is just getting more and more interesting. I never thought of
-hiveconf option, and always assumed it was a typo of --hiveconf. (That's
why I edited the one, which triggered the discovery.) I just checked and
found that both work, which is out of my surprise.
With this assumption, Beeline
