Sachin, it works SET hive.exec.compress.output=true; SET mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec; SET mapred.output.compression.type=BLOCK; create table data1_seq STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE as select * from date1;
hadoop fs -cat /user/hive/warehouse/data1_seq/000000_0 | less SEQ^F"org.apache.hadoop.io.BytesWritable^Yorg.apache.hadoop.io.Text^A^A'org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec^ On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Sachin Sudarshana < > sachin.had...@gmail.com> wrote: > > what's the header of the first sequence file look like? > > *$ dfs -cat > /user/hive/warehouse/facts_520.db/test3facts520_gzip_seq/000000_0 | head > * > > >
