[jira] Commented: (HIVE-1096) Hive Variables

["Zheng Shao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Zheng Shao commented on HIVE-1096:
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Edward, currently Hive only allows "--" comment before a query, but not before a "set" command or something like that. That might be the reason. (It ought to be fixed)

> Hive Variables
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>                 Key: HIVE-1096
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1096
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Edward Capriolo
>            Assignee: Edward Capriolo
>         Attachments: hive-1096-2.diff, hive-1096.diff
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> From mailing list:
> --Amazon Elastic MapReduce version of Hive seems to have a nice feature called "Variables." Basically you can define a variable via command-line while invoking hive with -d DT=2009-12-09 and then refer to the variable via ${DT} within the hive queries. This could be extremely useful. I can't seem to find this feature even on trunk. Is this feature currently anywhere in the roadmap?--
> This could be implemented in many places.
> A simple place to put this is 
> in Driver.compile or Driver.run we can do string substitutions at that level, and further downstream need not be effected. 
> There could be some benefits to doing this further downstream, parser,plan. but based on the simple needs we may not need to overthink this.
> I will get started on implementing in compile unless someone wants to discuss this more.

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