Re: 49 config params without descriptions

[Lefty Leverenz <le...@gmail.com>]

This list of Hive configuration parameters without descriptions has been
transferred to HIVE-7227 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7227>.

-- Lefty


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Lefty Leverenz <le...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Found two more from HIVE-5522
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5522> (also HIVE-6098
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6098>, Merge Tez branch into
> trunk) so the current total is 51 configs that don't have descriptions in
> 0.13.0:
>
> *Release 13 *
>
> hive.compute.splits.in.am
>
> hive.rpc.query.plan
>
>
> But these both have comments in HiveConf.java that can be used as
> descriptions, although they aren't included in hive-default.xml.template.
>  I missed them because I was working from the patch for HIVE-6037
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6037> and Navis had used the
> HiveConf comments for descriptions.  (That means there could be more
> parameters missing from the 0.13.0 template file.)
>
>
>
> -- Lefty
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Lefty Leverenz <le...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Here's a list of 49 configuration parameters in RC0 (and trunk) that
>> don't have descriptions in hive-default.xml.template:
>>
>>
>> *Release 1 or 2 *
>>
>> hive.exec.submitviachild
>>
>> hive.metastore.metadb.dir
>>
>> hive.jar.path
>>
>> hive.aux.jars.path
>>
>> hive.table.name
>>
>> hive.partition.name
>>
>> hive.alias
>>
>>
>> *Release 3 *
>>
>> hive.cli.errors.ignore
>>
>>
>> *Release 4 *
>>
>> hive.added.files.path
>>
>> hive.added.jars.path
>>
>>
>> *Release 5 *
>>
>> hive.intermediate.compression.codec
>>
>> hive.intermediate.compression.type
>>
>> hive.added.archives.path
>>
>>
>> *Release 6 *
>>
>> hive.metastore.archive.intermediate.archived
>>
>> hive.metastore.archive.intermediate.extracted
>>
>> hive.mapred.partitioner
>>
>> hive.exec.script.trust
>>
>> hive.hadoop.supports.splittable.combineinputformat
>>
>>
>> *Release 7 *
>>
>> hive.lockmgr.zookeeper.default.partition.name
>>
>> hive.metastore.fs.handler.class
>>
>> hive.query.result.fileformat
>>
>> hive.hashtable.initialCapacity
>>
>> hive.hashtable.loadfactor
>>
>> hive.debug.localtask
>>
>> hive.lock.manager
>>
>> hive.outerjoin.supports.filters
>>
>> hive.semantic.analyzer.hook
>>
>>
>> *Release 8 *
>>
>> hive.exec.job.debug.timeout
>>
>> hive.exec.tasklog.debug.timeout
>>
>> hive.merge.rcfile.block.level
>>
>> hive.merge.input.format.block.level
>>
>> hive.merge.current.job.has.dynamic.partitions
>>
>> hive.stats.collect.rawdatasize
>>
>>
>> *Release 8.1 *
>>
>> hive.optimize.metadataonly
>>
>>
>> *Release 9 *
>>
>>
>> *Release 10 *
>>
>>
>> *Release 11 *
>>
>> hive.exec.rcfile.use.sync.cache
>>
>> hive.stats.key.prefix                                    --- *internal*
>>
>>
>> *Release 12 *
>>
>> hive.scratch.dir.permission
>>
>> datanucleus.fixedDatastore
>>
>> datanucleus.rdbms.useLegacyNativeValueStrategy
>>
>> hive.optimize.sampling.orderby                     --- *internal?*
>>
>> hive.optimize.sampling.orderby.number
>>
>> hive.optimize.sampling.orderby.percent
>>
>> hive.server2.authentication.ldap.Domain
>>
>> hive.server2.session.hook
>>
>> hive.typecheck.on.insert
>>
>>
>> *Release 13 *
>>
>> hive.metastore.expression.proxy
>>
>> hive.txn.manager
>>
>> hive.stageid.rearrange
>>
>> hive.explain.dependency.append.tasktype
>>
>>
>>
>> What's the best way to deal with these?
>>
>>    1. Ignore them (or identify those that can be ignored).
>>    2. Add some descriptions in Hive 0.13.0 RC1.
>>    3. Deal with them after HIVE-6037
>>    <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6037> gets committed.
>>       - Try to cover all of them by Hive 0.14.0:
>>        - Put the list in a JIRA and create a common HiveConf.java patch,
>>          which can be appended until release 0.14.0 is ready.
>>          - Accumulate descriptions in JIRA comments, then create a patch
>>          from the comments.
>>       - Deal with them as soon as possible:
>>       - Put the list in an umbrella JIRA and use sub-task JIRAs to add
>>          descriptions individually or in small groups.
>>          4. Deal with them in the wiki, then patch HiveConf.java before
>>    release 0.14.0.
>>    5. [Your idea goes here.]
>>
>>
>> -- Lefty
>>
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