Hi, I'm very much a Hive newbie but I've been looking at HIVE-417 and this page in particular: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/IndexDev Using this information I've been able to create an index (using Hive 0.8.1) and when I look at the contents it all looks very promising indeed. However on the same page there's this comment:
"...This document currently only covers index creation and maintenance. A follow-on will explain how indexes are used to optimize queries (building on FilterPushdownDev<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/FilterPushdownDev>)...." However I can't find the "follow-on" which tells me how to exploit the index that I've created to "optimize" subsequent queries. Now I've been told that I can create and use indexes with the current release of Hive _without_ writing and developing any Java code of my own. Is this true? If so, how? Any help appreciated. Peter Marron.
