I've been using the hive jdbc driver more and more and was missing some
functionality which I added

HiveDatabaseMetaData.getTables
Using "show tables" to get the info from hive.

HiveDatabaseMetaData.getColumns
Using "describe tablename" to get the columns.

This makes using something like SQuirreL a lot nicer since you have the
list of tables and just click on the content tab to see what's in the table.
I also implemented
HiveResultSet.getObject(String columnName) so you call most get* methods
based on the column name.

Is it worth making a patch for this?

Hi Bennie,

Sounds great! That should be very useful for users.
It would be nice to have more jdbc functionality on hive jdbc.

Thanks,
Youngwoo

2010/2/3 Bennie Schut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I've been using the hive jdbc driver more and more and was missing some
> functionality which I added
>
> HiveDatabaseMetaData.getTables
> Using "show tables" to get the info from hive.
>
> HiveDatabaseMetaData.getColumns
> Using "describe tablename" to get the columns.
>
> This makes using something like SQuirreL a lot nicer since you have the
> list of tables and just click on the content tab to see what's in the table.
>
>
> I also implemented
> HiveResultSet.getObject(String columnName) so you call most get* methods
> based on the column name.
>
> Is it worth making a patch for this?
>

This would certainly be useful. When creating the JIRA you can make it a
child task to this one:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-576

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:18 AM, 김영우 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Bennie,
>
> Sounds great! That should be very useful for users.
> It would be nice to have more jdbc functionality on hive jdbc.
>
> Thanks,
> Youngwoo
>
> 2010/2/3 Bennie Schut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I've been using the hive jdbc driver more and more and was missing some
>> functionality which I added
>>
>> HiveDatabaseMetaData.getTables
>> Using "show tables" to get the info from hive.
>>
>> HiveDatabaseMetaData.getColumns
>> Using "describe tablename" to get the columns.
>>
>> This makes using something like SQuirreL a lot nicer since you have the
>> list of tables and just click on the content tab to see what's in the table.
>>
>>
>> I also implemented
>> HiveResultSet.getObject(String columnName) so you call most get* methods
>> based on the column name.
>>
>> Is it worth making a patch for this?
>>
>
>