CDH 3 Release Notes

The following lists all Apache Hive Jiras included in CDH 3 that are not included in the Apache Hive base version 0.7.1. The hive-0.7.1+42.56.CHANGES.txt file lists all changes included in CDH 3. The patch for each change can be found in the cloudera/patches directory in the release tarball.

Changes Not In Apache Hive 0.7.1

CDH

Bug

[DISTRO-286] - hive-hbase-handler POM not included in CDH Maven repository
[DISTRO-245] - CDH packages shouldn't ship jars from other CDH packages
[DISTRO-150] - Should /var/lib/hive/metastore/scripts/* be in /usr/lib/hive instead?

Hive

Bug

[HIVE-1943] - Metastore operations (like drop_partition) could be improved in terms of maintaining consistency of metadata and data
[HIVE-1450] - always catch exception when invoke executeUpdate in jdbc
[HIVE-2918] - Hive Dynamic Partition Insert - move task not considering 'hive.exec.max.dynamic.partitions' from CLI
[HIVE-2411] - Metastore server tries to connect to NN without authenticating itself
[HIVE-2259] - Skip comments in hive script
[HIVE-2260] - ExecDriver::addInputPaths should pass the table properties to the record writer
[HIVE-2315] - DatabaseMetadata.getColumns() does not return partition column names for a table
[HIVE-2358] - JDBC DatabaseMetaData and ResultSetMetaData need to match for particular types
[HIVE-1631] - JDBC driver returns wrong precision, scale, or column size for some data types
[HIVE-2204] - unable to get column names for a specific table that has '_' as part of its table name
[HIVE-2307] - Schema creation scripts for PostgreSQL use bit(1) instead of boolean
[HIVE-2037] - Merge result file size should honor hive.merge.size.per.task
[HIVE-2342] - mirror.facebook.net is 404ing
[HIVE-2269] - Hive --auxpath option can't handle multiple colon separated values
[HIVE-2001] - Add inputs and outputs to authorization DDL commands
[HIVE-2257] - Enable TestHadoop20SAuthBridge
[HIVE-2069] - NullPointerException on getSchemas
[HIVE-2062] - HivePreparedStatement.executeImmediate always throw exception

Improvement

[HIVE-1877] - Add java_method() as a synonym for the reflect() UDF
[HIVE-2203] - Extend concat_ws() UDF to support arrays of strings
[HIVE-1740] - support NOT IN and NOT LIKE syntax
[HIVE-2457] - Files in Avro-backed Hive tables do not have a ".avro" extension
[HIVE-2245] - Make CombineHiveInputFormat the default hive.input.format
[HIVE-2126] - Hive's symlink text input format should be able to work with ComineHiveInputFormat
[HIVE-1815] - The class HiveResultSet should implement batch fetching.
[HIVE-1983] - Bundle Log4j configuration files in Hive JARs

New Feature

[HIVE-895] - Add SerDe for Avro serialized data
[HIVE-2418] - replace or translate function in hive
[HIVE-2005] - Implement BETWEEN operator
[HIVE-1941] - support explicit view partitioning
[HIVE-1734] - Implement map_keys() and map_values() UDFs
[HIVE-818] - Create a Hive CLI that connects to hive ThriftServer