if you can configure flume to create temporary files that start with an underscore (_) i believe hive will safely ignore them. otherwise you have write a script to move them out.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:09 AM, P lva <ruvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm have a flume stream that stores data in a directory which is source > for an external table in hive. > However flume creates tmp file that cannot be read by hive and query > breaks. > Is there any way to avoid hive reading this tmp file ? > > Thanks >
