It's supposed to be implemented after https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1662 would be checked in. But it's not in progress for a year.
Thanks, 2014-02-06 John Meza <[email protected]>: > A couple of simple questions on logfile organization in HDFS and > referenced by an external table. > > 1.An external table location must sit on top of the HDFS directory > containing the logfiles. > It can not sit 2 HDFS directory levels above the logfiles and reference. > Ex. logfiles organized by > /logfile/year/month/day > /logfile/2013/05/20/2013-05-20-1-nnnnnn.tsv > /logfile/2013/05/20/2013-05-20-2-nnnnnn.tsv > .... > The external table location can't be '/logfile/2013/05'; > > 2. is #1 related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1083? > thanks > John >
