On Oct 19, 2012, at 1:03pm, Koert Kuipers wrote: > i noticed avro version 1.5.4 is included with some version/distros of hadoop > and hive... is there a reason why 1.5.4 is included specifically and not > newer ones? are there some incompatibilities to be aware of? i would like to > use a newer version
In the mail archives there was a discussion back in July about using Avro 1.7 with CHD4. where Jacob Metcalf said: > Avro 17 is compiled against Hadoop 1 i.e. CDH3. > > I have it running aginst CDH4 but I had to patch and recompile Avro, then > replace the Avro 153 in the Hadoop lib directory with 17. I have attached my > patch against JIRA AVRO-1103 for consideration. It sounds like if you're using CDH3/Hadoop 1.0 then you should be able to use Avro 1.7 as-is, but I haven't tried this myself. -- Ken -------------------------------------------- http://about.me/kkrugler +1 530-210-6378
