Hive Change Log

Release 0.6.0 - 2010-10-19

• INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES    (none)
• NEW FEATURES    (37)
  1. HIVE-964. Handle skew join
     (Yongqiang He via namit)
  2. HIVE-972. Support views.
     (John Sichi via zshao)
  3. HIVE-1172. Add UDFS to create struct
     (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  4. HIVE-894. add udaf max_n, min_n to contrib
     (Zheng Shao via Yongqiang He)
  5. HIVE-1152. Add metastore API method to drop/append partition by name.
     (Paul Yang via zshao)
  6. HIVE-1147. Update Eclipse project configuration to match Checkstyle
     (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  7. HIVE-1117. Make queryPlan serializable
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  8. HIVE-917. Bucketed Map Join
     (He Yongqiang via namit)
  9. HIVE-1178. enforce bucketing for a table.
     (Namit Jain via He Yongqiang)
  10. HIVE-1188. NPE when TestJdbcDriver/TestHiveServer
      (Call Steinbach via Ning Zhang)
  11. HIVE-1032. Better Error Messages for Execution Errors.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  12. HIVE-1193. ensure sorting properties for a table.
      (Namit via He Yongqiang)
  13. HIVE-259. Add PERCENTILE aggregate function.
      (Jerome Boulon, Zheng via He Yongqiang)
  14. HIVE-1197. Add BucketizedHiveInputFormat
      (Siying Dong via namit)
  15. HIVE-1194. Add sort merge join
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  16. HIVE-705. Read HBase tables via Hive
      (John Sichi via namit)
  17. HIVE-1027. Create UDFs for XPath expression evaluation
      (Patrick Angeles via Ning Zhang)
  18. HIVE-1238. Get Partitions with a partial specification
      (Paul Yang via Ning Zhang)
  19. HIVE-1244. add backward-compatibility constructor to HiveMetaStoreClient
      (John Sichi via Ning Zhang)
  20. HIVE-1219. Robust handling of metastore connection failures
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  21. HIVE-1272. Add SymlinkTextInputFormat to Hive.
      (Guanghao Shen via zshao)
  22. HIVE-1131. Add column lineage information to the pre execution hooks
      (Ashish Thusoo via namit)
  23. HIVE-1300. alter table touch partition
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  24. HIVE-1295. facilitate HBase bulk loads from Hive
      (John Sichi via namit)
  25. HIVE-1002. multi-partition inserts
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  26. HIVE-801. Add support for row-wise IN
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  27. HIVE-1351. rcfilecat for debugging
      (Yongqiang He via namit)
  28. HIVE-1332. Support for archiving partitions
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  29. HIVE-1397. histogram_numeric UDAF
      (Mayank Lahiri via jvs)
  30. HIVE-1179. Add UDF array_contains
      (Arvind Prabhakar via namit)
  31. HIVE-543. Add local mode execution in hive
      (Joydeep Sen Sarma via namit)
  32. HIVE-1255. Add mathematical UDFs PI, E, degrees, radians, tan, sign, and atan.
      (Edward Capriolo via jvs)
  33. HIVE-287. Support count(*) and count distinct on multiple columns
      (Arvind Prabhakar via jvs)
  34. HIVE-1307. More efficient merge
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  35. HIVE-675. add database/schema support Hive QL
      (Carl Steinbach via namit)
  36. HIVE-1427. Add metastore schema migration scripts (0.5 -> 0.6)
      (Carl Steinback via namit)
  37. HIVE-1709. Add Postgres database migration scripts (0.5 -> 0.6)
      (Yuanjun Li via namit)
• IMPROVEMENTS    (54)
  1. HIVE-983. Function from_unixtime takes long.
     (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  2. HIVE-990. Incorporate CheckStyle into Hive's build.xml.
     (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  3. HIVE-1081. Automated source code cleanup - Part 1.
     (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  4. HIVE-1081. Automated source code cleanup - Part 2 - serde.
     (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  5. HIVE-1081. Automated source code cleanup - Part 3 - ql.
     (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  6. HIVE-1084. Capitalize first letter of class names.
     (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  7. HIVE-1112. Replace instances of StringBuffer and Vector with StringBuilder and ArrayList.
     (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  8. HIVE-1105. Add service script for starting metastore server.
     (John Sichi via zshao)
  9. HIVE-1109. Structured temporary directories
     (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  10. HIVE-1068. CREATE VIEW followup: add a 'table type' enum attribute in metastore's MTable.
      (John Sichi via zshao)
  11. HIVE-1104. Suppress Checkstyle warnings for generated files.
      (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  12. HIVE-1128. Let max/min handle complex types like struct
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  13. HIVE-1103. Add .gitignore file.
      (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  14. HIVE-1132. Add metastore API method to get partition by name.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  15. HIVE-1120. In ivy offline mode, don't delete downloaded jars.
      (John Sichi via zshao)
  16. HIVE-862. CommandProcessor should return DriverResponse.
      (Bill Graham via zshao)
  17. HIVE-1123. Checkstyle fixes.
      (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  18. HIVE-1150. Add comment to explain why we check for dir first in add_partitions().
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  19. HIVE-1122. Make ql/metadata/Table and Partition serializable
      (Zheng Shao via He Yongqiang)
  20. HIVE-1158. Introducing a new parameter for Map-side join bucket size.
      (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  21. HIVE-1136. Add type-checking setters for HiveConf class.
      (John Sichi via zshao)
  22. HIVE-1181. Make it optional to check file format.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  23. HIVE-1182. Fix TestCliDriver too many open file error.
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  24. HIVE-1190. Configure build to download Hadoop tarballs from Facebook mirror.
      (John Sichi via zshao)
  25. HIVE-1195. Increase ObjectInspector[] length on demand
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  26. HIVE-1137. Fix build.xml for references to IVY_HOME.
      (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  27. HIVE-1212. Explicitly say "Hive Internal Error" to ease debugging
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  28. HIVE-1216. Show the row with error in mapper/reducer
      (Zheng Shao via He Yongqiang)
  29. HIVE-1246. Map join followde by another map join runs in a single map-only job
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  30. HIVE-1220. accept TBLPROPERTIES on CREATE TABLE/VIEW
      (John Sichi via namit)
  31. HIVE-1258. Disable merge files when bucketing/sorting is being enforced
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  32. HIVE-1270. Thread pool size in Thrift metastore server should be configurable
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  33. HIVE-1278. Partition name to values conversion conversion method
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  34. HIVE-1276. Remove extra reducesink if it is already followed by a reduce sink
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  35. HIVE-1296. CLI set and set -v commands should dump properties in alphabetical order
      (John Sichi via Ning Zhang)
  36. HIVE-1306. cleanup the JobScratchDir
      (Namit Jain via Ning Zhang)
  37. HIVE-1349. Do not pull counters of non initialized jobs.
      (Dmytro Molkov via Ning Zhang)
  38. HIVE-1198. When checkstyle is activated for Hive in Eclipse environment, it shows all checkstyle problems as errors.
      (Arvind Prabhakar via Ning Zhang)
  39. HIVE-1355. Hive should use NullOutputFormat for hadoop jobs
      (Joydeep Sen Sarma via namit)
  40. HIVE-1372. New algorithm for variance() UDAF
      (Mayank Lahiri via jvs)
  41. HIVE-1228. allow HBase key column to be anywhere in Hive table
      (John Sichi via Ning Zhang)
  42. HIVE-1410. Add TCP keepalive option for metastore server
      (Paul Yang via Ning Zhang)
  43. HIVE-1383. Allow HBase WAL to be disabled.
      (John Sichi via Ning Zhang)
  44. HIVE-1359. Unit test should be shim-aware
      (Ning Zhang via jvs)
  45. HIVE-1135. Use Anakia for version controlled documentation
      (Edward Capriolo via jvs)
  46. HIVE-1401. Web interface can only browse default
      (Edward Capriolo via jvs)
  47. HIVE-1531. Make Hive build work with Ivy versions < 2.1.0
      (Carl Steinbach via jvs)
  48. HIVE-1364 Increase the maximum length of various metastore fields, and remove TYPE_NAME from COLUMNS primary key
      (Carl Steinbach via namit)
  49. HIVE-1693 Make the compile target depend on thrift.home
      (Eli Collins via namit)
  50. HIVE-1697 Migration scripts should increase size of PARAM_VALUE in PARTITION_PARAMS
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  51. HIVE-1725. Include metastore upgrade scripts in release tarball
      (Carl Steinbach via jvs)
  52. HIVE-1726. Update README file for 0.6.0 release
      (Carl Steinbach via jvs)
  53. HIVE-1729. Satisfy ASF release management requirements
      (Carl Steinbach via jvs)
  54. HIVE-1736. Remove "-dev" suffix from release package name and generate MD5 checksum using Ant
      (Carl Steinbach via jvs)
• OPTIMIZATIONS    (1)
  1. HIVE-1348. Move inputFileChanged() from ExecMapper to where it is needed
     (Ning Zhang via namit)
• BUG FIXES    (117)
  1. HIVE-1047. Merge tasks in GenMRUnion1
     (Ning Zhang via namit)
  2. HIVE-1048. Make output of TestParse determinisitc
     (Paul Yang via namit)
  3. HIVE-1045. (bigint % int) should return bigint instead of double.
     (Paul Yang via zshao)
  4. HIVE-1046. Pass build.dir.hive and other properties to subant
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  5. HIVE-1066. Fix test outputs serde_typedbytes*.q
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  6. HIVE-1064. Null Pointer Exception in Hive CLI in distributed mode
     (Carl Steinbach via Ning Zhang)
  7. HIVE-1075. Make it possible for users to recover data when moveTask fails
     (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  8. HIVE-1072. Show table extended to error out when the partition does not exist.
     (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  9. HIVE-1085. ColumnarSerde should not be the default Serde when user specified a fileformat using 'stored as'
     (Yongqiang He via Ning Zhang)
  10. HIVE-1086. Add "-Doffline=true" option to ant.
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  11. HIVE-1094. Disable streaming last table if there is a skew key in previous tables.
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  12. HIVE-1097. Increase memory for groupby_bigdata.q for intermittent OOM
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  13. HIVE-763. getSchema returns invalid column names, getThriftSchema does not return old style string schemas
      (John Sichi via namit)
  14. HIVE-1102. make number of concurrent tasks configurable
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  15. HIVE-1069. CREATE VIEW followup: find and document current expected version of thrift
      (John Sichi via namit)
  16. HIVE-898. Hive ODBC build fails on OSX.
      (Carl Steinbach and Ning Zhang via zshao)
  17. HIVE-1108. Make QueryPlan serializable
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  18. HIVE-1093. Add a "skew join map join size" variable to control the input size of skew join's following map join job
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  19. HIVE-1110. Add a counter to denote that skewjoin got triggered
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  20. HIVE-1092. Add job counter for conditional tasks
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  21. HIVE-1119. Serialize all tasks
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  22. HIVE-1118. Change default size of average size to 16M
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  23. HIVE-1121. Support CombineHiveInputFormat for hadoop 0.19
      (Roberto Congiu via namit)
  24. HIVE-1125. Correct console output message.
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  25. HIVE-1124. Create view should expand the query text consistently.
      (John Sichi via zshao)
  26. HIVE-1129. Fix assertion in ExecDriver.execute.
      (John Sichi via zshao)
  27. HIVE-1141. Remove recursive call in FetchOperator.getNextRow.
      (Zheng Shao via He Yongqiang)
  28. HIVE-1140. Fix incorrect ambiguous column reference error message.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  29. HIVE-1142. Fix datanucleus typos in conf/hive-default.xml.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  30. HIVE-1164. Fix drop_partition_by_name.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  31. HIVE-1167. Use TreeMap instead of Property to make explain extended deterministic
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  32. HIVE-1174. Fix Job counter error if "hive.merge.mapfiles" equals true.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  33. HIVE-1163. Eclipse launchtemplate changes to enable debugging.
      (Ning Zhang and Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  34. HIVE-1134. Bucketed Map Join bug fix
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  35. HIVE-1183. hive.hwi.war.file vanished from hive-default.xml
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  36. HIVE-1185. Fix RCFile resource leak when opening a non-RCFile.
      (He Yongqiang via zshao)
  37. HIVE-1184. Fix Expression Not In Group By Key error.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  38. HIVE-1200. Fix CombineHiveInputFormat
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  39. HIVE-1204. typedbytes: writing to stderr kills the mapper.
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  40. HIVE-1207. ScriptOperator AutoProgressor does not set the interval.
      (Zheng via He Yongqiang)
  41. HIVE-1022. desc Table should work.
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  42. HIVE-1241. Drop the table at the beginning of tests
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  43. HIVE-1242. CombinHiveInputFormat does not work for compressed text files.
      (Namit Jain via Ning Zhang)
  44. HIVE-1247. Transform does not work with hints
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  45. HIVE-1252. Column pruning buf after a filter
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  46. HIVE-1261. ql.metadata.Hive#close() should check for null metaStoreClient
      (bc Wong via namit)
  47. HIVE-1268. Cannot start metastore thrift server on a specific port
      (bc Wong via namit)
  48. HIVE-1257. join between hbase and other tables does not work
      (John Sichi via namit)
  49. HIVE-1273 UDF_Percentile NullPointerException
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  50. HIVE-1274 Bug in sort-merge join in presence of empry files
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  51. HIVE-1279 Temporarily disable TestHBaseCliDriver
      (John Sichi via namit)
  52. HIVE-1275 Fix TestHBaseCliDriver
      (John Sichi via namit)
  53. HIVE-1277 Failure if the local file system directory for ${hive.user.scratchdir} does not exist
      (Arvind Prabhakar via namit)
  54. HIVE-1281 Bucketing column names in create table should be case-insensitive
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  55. HIVE-1286. Remove debug message from stdout in ColumnarSerDe.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  56. HIVE-1253. Fix Date_sub and Date_add in case of daylight saving.
      (Bryan Talbot via zshao)
  57. HIVE-1291. Fix UDAFPercentile ndexOutOfBoundsException
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  58. HIVE-1290. Sort merge join does not work with bucketizedhiveinputformat.
      (Namit Jain via Ning Zhang)
  59. HIVE-1280. Add option to CombineHiveInputFormat for non-splittable inputs.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  60. HIVE-1011. GenericUDTFExplode() throws NPE when given nulls
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  61. HIVE-1298. unit test symlink_text_input_format.q needs ORDER BY for determinism
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  62. HIVE-1311. Bug in use of parameter hadoop supports splittable.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  63. HIVE-1308. Bug in boolean datatypes comparison
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  64. HIVE-1312. hive trunk does not compile with 0.17 any more
      (John Sichi via Ning Zhang)
  65. HIVE-1260. from_unixtime should accept bigints
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  66. HIVE-1315. Bug in sort-merge join
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  67. HIVE-1316. Increase hive client side memory
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  68. HIVE-1320. NPE with lineage in a query of union all on joins
      (Ashish Thusoo via Ning Zhang)
  69. HIVE-1321. bugs with temp directories, trailing blank fields in HBase bulk load
      (John Sichi via namit)
  70. HIVE-1325. dynamic partition insert should throw an exception if the number of target table columns + dynamic partition columns does not equal to the number of select columns
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  71. HIVE-1326. RowContainer uses hard-coded /tmp path for temporary files
      (Michael Klatt via Ning Zhang)
  72. HIVE-1330. Fatal error check omitted for reducer-side operators
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  73. HIVE-1331. select * does not work if different partitions contain differnet format
      (Namit Jain via Ning Zhang)
  74. HIVE-1329. alter table to external does not change table_type to external
      (John Sichi via namit)
  75. HIVE-1328. make mapred.input.dir.recursive work for select *
      (John Sichi via namit)
  76. HIVE-1338. Fix bin/ext/jar.sh to work with hadoop 0.20 and above
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)
  77. HIVE-1317. CombineHiveInputFormat throws exception when partition name contains special characters to URI
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  78. HIVE-1341. Filter Operator Column Pruning should preserve the column order
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  79. HIVE-1116. Bug in renames for tables created with 'create table like'
      (John Sichi via namit)
  80. HIVE-1322. Cached FileSystem can lead to persistant IOExceptions
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  81. HIVE-1345. TypedBytesSerDe fails to create table with multiple columns.
      (Arvind Prabhakar via namit)
  82. HIVE-1029. Null support for TypedBytesSerDe
      (Arvind Prabhakar via namit)
  83. HIVE-1352. Bug in rcfilecat
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  84. HIVE-1353. load_dyn_part*.q need ORDER BY for determinism
      (John Sichi via Ning Zhang)
  85. HIVE-1354. partition level properties honored if it exists
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  86. HIVE-1357. optimize CombineHiveInputFormat to cache inputFormat
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  87. HIVE-1350. hive.query.id is not unique
      (Namit Jain via Ning Zhang)
  88. HIVE-1335 DataNucleus should use connection pooling
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  89. HIVE-1366. inputFileFormat error if the merge job takes a different input file format than the default output file format
      (Namit Jain via Ning Zhang)
  90. HIVE-1365. Bug in sort-merge join
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  91. HIVE-1371. Bug in rcfilecat
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  92. HIVE-1377. getPartitionDescFromPath() in CombineHiveInputFormat should handle matching by path
      (Paul Yang via Ning Zhang)
  93. HIVE-1388. combinehiveinputformat does not work if files are of different types
      (Namit Jain via Ning Zhang)
  94. HIVE-1373. Missing connection pool plugin in Eclipse classpath.
      (Vinithra via athusoo)
  95. HIVE-1403. Report progress if many files to close
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  96. HIVE-1407. Add hadoop-*-tools.jar to eclipse classpath
      (Carl Steinbach via Ning Zhang)
  97. HIVE-1409. Use the tableSpec if partitions is not present
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  98. HIVE-1418. Bug in RCfiles with Lateral Views
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  99. HIVE-1412. Bug in CombineHiveInputFormat with sampling
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  100. HIVE-1421. problem with sequence and rcfiles are mixed for null partitions
       (namit via He Yongqiang)
  101. HIVE-1417. Archived partitions throw error with queries calling getContentSummary
       (Paul Yang via namit)
  102. HIVE-1271. Make matching of type information case insensitive.
       (Arvind Prabhakar via Ashish Thusoo)
  103. HIVE-1176. 'create if not exists' fails for a table name with 'select' in it.
       (Arvind Prabhakar via jvs)
  104. HIVE-1435. Upgraded naming scheme causes JDO exceptions
       (Paul Yang via jvs)
  105. HIVE-1454. insert overwrite and CTAS fail in hive local mode
       (Joydeep Sen Sarma via He Yongqiang )
  106. HIVE-1056. Predicate push down does not work with UDTF's
       (Paul Yang and Carl Steinbach via He Yongqiang)
  107. HIVE-1455. lateral view does not work with column pruning.
       (Paul Yang via He Yongqiang)
  108. HIVE-1492. FileSinkOperator should remove duplicated files from the same task based on file sizes.
       (Ning Zhang via He Yongqiang)
  109. HIVE-1411. DataNucleus throws NucleusException if core-3.1.1 JAR appears more than once on CLASSPATH
       (Carl Steinbach via jvs)
  110. HIVE-1294. HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH interferes with startup of Hive Web Interface
       (Edward Capriolo via jvs)
  111. HIVE-1428. ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION failes with a remote Thrift metastore
       (Pradeep Kamath via jvs)
  112. HIVE-1543. Abort if record reader's next throws an exception
       (Ning Zhang via namit)
  113. HIVE-1594. Typo of hive.merge.size.smallfiles.avgsize prevents change of value.
       (Yun Huang Yong via namit)
  114. HIVE-1613. hive --service jar looks for hadoop version but was not defined
       (Edward Capriolo via jvs)
  115. HIVE-1615. Web Interface JSP needs Refactoring for removed metastore methods
       (Edward Capriolo via jvs)
  116. HIVE-1524. parallel execution failed if mapred.job.name is set
       (Yuanjun Li via Ning Zhang)
  117. HIVE-1681. ObjectStore.commitTransaction() does not properly handle transactions that have already been rolled back
       (Carl Steinbach via Ning Zhang)

Release 0.5.0 - 2010-02-22

• INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES    (1)
  1. HIVE-236. RLIKE/REGEXP allowing matching of partial strings.
     (Paul Yang via zshao)
• NEW FEATURES    (38)
  1. HIVE-743. Let user specify serde for custom scripts.
     (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  2. HIVE-749. add hive.optimize.pruner
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  3. HIVE-693. Add a AWS S3 log format deserializer
     (Zheng Shao and Andraz Tori via namit)
  4. HIVE-699. Functions with variable length arguments
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  5. HIVE-713. Integrate operator counters into query plan to view progress of queries.
     (Namit Jain and Raghu Murthy via zshao)
  6. HIVE-187. Preliminary ODBC Support.
     (Eric Hwang via rmurthy)
  7. HIVE-708. Add TypedBytes SerDe for transform.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  8. HIVE-777. CREATE TABLE with STRUCT type.
     (He Yongqiang via zshao)
  9. HIVE-792. Support "add archive" in addition to "add file" and "add jar".
     (He Yongqiang via zshao)
  10. HIVE-645. UDF to run JDBC
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  11. HIVE-785. Add RecordWriter for ScriptOperator.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  12. HIVE-687. Add UDF unhex.
      (Mihir Kedia via namit)
  13. HIVE-591. Add Unique Join.
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  14. HIVE-667. Provide hive ql to check table/partition status.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  15. HIVE-843. Add UDFs for hour, minute and second
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  16. HIVE-854. Provide for post-execute hooks.
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  17. HIVE-853. Provide hints for controlling join order
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  18. HIVE-31. Support Create Table As Select
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  19. HIVE-682. Add concat_ws
      (Jonathan Chang via namit)
  20. HIVE-868. Add last ddl time and dml time for table/partition.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  21. HIVE-869. Allow ScriptOperator to consume not all input data.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  22. HIVE-688. UDF find_in_set
      (Jonathan Pythagoras Hsu via namit)
  23. HIVE-881. CTAS to work with fields terminator.
      (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  24. HIVE-874. Add 'repair' option to mack. (Cyrus Katrak via prasadc).
  25. HIVE-873. Better error messages for Hive cmdline.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  26. HIVE-554. Add GenericUDF to create arrays, maps.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  27. HIVE-911. Add UDF WeekOfYear.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  28. HIVE-870. Add left semi join.
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  29. HIVE-870. Add table functions.
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  30. HIVE-549. Run independent tasks for a query in parallel.
      (Chaitanya Mishra via namit)
  31. HIVE-946. Pass context to custom mapper/reducer
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  32. HIVE-935. Add lateral view
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  33. HIVE-571 Add rename column in a table
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  34. HIVE-1020 Create a confifuration variable to control speculative execution for reducers in hive
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  35. HIVE-683 Add UDF field
      (Larry Odrognek via namit)
  36. HIVE-1015 Java MapReduce wrapper for TRANSFORM/MAP/REDUCE scripts
      (Larry Odrognek via namit)
  37. HIVE-1036. Add API Method to Query HiveConf Values of the Metastore.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  38. HIVE-1106. Support ALTER TABLE t ADD IF NOT EXIST PARTITION.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
• IMPROVEMENTS    (22)
  1. HIVE-760. Add version info to META-INF/MANIFEST.MF.
     (Bill Graham via zshao)
  2. HIVE-759. Add "hive.intermediate.compression.codec/type" option.
     (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  3. HIVE-732. Use LazyBinarySerDe
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  4. HIVE-768. Add conf var to disable counters introduced by HIVE-713.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  5. HIVE-679. Adding the basic JDBC methods to allow querying using the SQuirrelSQL tool.
     (Bill Graham via rmurthy)
  6. HIVE-811. Fix Javadocs.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  7. HIVE-813. Show the actual exception thrown in UDF evaluation
     (Zheng Shao via rmurthy)
  8. HIVE-756. Performance improvement for RCFile and ColumnarSerDe in Hive.
     (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  9. HIVE-584. Clean up global and ThreadLocal variables in Hive.
     (Yonqqiang He via zshao)
  10. HIVE-74. Hive can use CombineFileInputFormat for when the input has many small files
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  11. HIVE-827. Increase hive.mapjoin.cache.numrows default value.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  12. HIVE-855. UDF: Concat should accept multiple arguments.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  13. HIVE-914. Optimize UDFJson
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  14. HIVE-945. custom mappers/reducers should not be initialized at compile time
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  15. HIVE-947. runlength encding for RCFILE
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  16. HIVE-949. avoid deep copy for group by hash table lookup
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  17. HIVE-931. optimize group by to use sorting and grouping properties
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  18. HIVE-968. remove mapjoin files and use a MRU cache to optimize lookups
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  19. HIVE-980. update readme.txt to build hive using eclipse
      (Patrick Angeles via namit)
  20. HIVE-1012. Ability to run testcases via regular expression
      (Carl Steinbach via namit)
  21. HIVE-963. No out of memory errors for skew join
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  22. HIVE-1023. typedbytes: datatypes should be derived from data
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
• OPTIMIZATIONS    (none)
• BUG FIXES    (98)
  1. HIVE-734. problem while inserting nulls.
     (Ning Zhang via namit)
  2. HIVE-769. Bug in partition pruner checking.
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  3. HIVE-773. Remove lzocodec import from FileSinkOperator.
     (He Yongqiang via johan)
  4. HIVE-769. Bug in partition pruner checking - bug in patch.
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  5. HIVE-782. Bug in reducer progress
     (Raghu Murthy via namit)
  6. HIVE-780. Better error messages for wrong argument lengths in UDAFs
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  7. HIVE-790. race conditions with script and union operators
     (Ning Zhang via namit)
  8. HIVE-798. remove UDAFSum and UDAFCount
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  9. HIVE-778. add describe for div
     (Ning Zhang via namit)
  10. HIVE-755. Driver NullPointerException when calling getResults without first compiling
      (Eric Hwang via namit)
  11. HIVE-752. Bug in shimLoader for HWI server
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  12. HIVE-810. add test and annotation for jdbc udf
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  13. HIVE-812. Hive compiled with ant package works with all supported hadoop versions
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  14. HIVE-823. Make table alise in MAPJOIN hint case insensitive.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  15. HIVE-771. Code cleanup in QueryPlan
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  16. HIVE-838. In strict mode, remove error if no partition is selected.
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  17. HIVE-841. Change deprecated Hadoop APIs in Context.java
      (Cyrus Katrak via namit)
  18. HIVE-844. Remove ASTPartitionPruner from genmapredTasks.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  19. HIVE-817. hive.hwi.war.file incorrectly tries to use environment variables to locate war file
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  20. HIVE-795. Better error messages from Hive Server
      (Bill Graham via namit)
  21. HIVE-716. Web interface wait/notify, interface changes
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  22. HIVE-831. Remove ASTPartitionPruner (missed this in HIVE-844)
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  23. HIVE-845. Shims do not build against latest hadoop
      (Cyrus Katrak via namit)
  24. HIVE-858. Better logging for script operator even in case of failure
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  25. HIVE-861. NumberFormatException in sum and average
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  26. HIVE-859. Clean HWI build.xml
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  27. HIVE-865. Map Join memory leak
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  28. HIVE-876. UDFOPNegative should deal with NULL gracefully.
      (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  29. HIVE-877. More test cases for UDFOPNegative.
      (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  30. HIVE-879. Fix null pointer for empty dir.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  31. HIVE-878. Update the hash table entry before flushing in Group By hash aggregation.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  32. HIVE-882. Create a new directory every time for scratch.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  33. HIVE-884. Metastore Server should call System.exit() on error.
      (Zheng Shao via pchakka)
  34. HIVE-890. Fix cli.sh for detecting Hadoop versions.
      (Paul Huff via zshao)
  35. HIVE-885. Better error messages for debugging serde problem at reducer input
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  36. HIVE-893. Thrift serde doesn't work with the new version of thrift.
      (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  37. HIVE-880. User group information not populated for pre and post hook.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  38. HIVE-883. URISyntaxException when partition value contains special chars.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  39. HIVE-903. msck: output not deterministic
      (Cyrus Katrak via namit)
  40. HIVE-905. Smallint not working for typedbyteserde.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  41. HIVE-840. No error if user specifies multiple columns of same name as output
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  42. HIVE-902. Fix cli.sh to work with hadoop versions less than 20.
      (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  43. HIVE-796. RCFile results missing columns from UNION ALL
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  44. HIVE-819. Add lazy decompress abilitt to rcfile
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  45. HIVE-910. RCFile is not included when user specifying it as the default file format
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  46. HIVE-907. NullPointerException in ErrorMsg.findSQLState
      (Bill Graham via namit)
  47. HIVE-910. NULL value is not correctly handled by ColumnarStruct
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  48. HIVE-804 Support deletion of partitions based on a prefix partition spefication
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  49. HIVE-921 MapJoin schema reordering
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  50. HIVE-923 Use HiveInputFormat by default
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  51. HIVE-926 bug in mapjoin when rows are getting aged out from cache
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  52. HIVE-912 ctas name should be case insensitive
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  53. HIVE-929. Use a new parameter to check whether to merge files or not
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  54. HIVE-980 mapjoin followed by union does not work
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  55. HIVE-940 restrict creation of partitions with empty keys
      (Prasad Chakka via namit)
  56. HIVE-941 hiveserver.sh doesn't work with Hadoop 0.20.0 or higher
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  57. HIVE-944 Generate thrift files in queryplan
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  58. HIVE-953 Fix test script_broken_pipe3.q
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  59. HIVE-957 Separate table and partition metadata
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  60. HIVE-961 bug in group by key wrapper
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  61. HIVE-966 Hive should emit log messages in 24-hour format
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  62. HIVE-962 "show functions" should work with unquoted string.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  63. HIVE-638 fix sampling in subquery for real
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  64. HIVE-973. Support nested types in custom scripts.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  65. HIVE-991 union with 200 kids fail
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  66. HIVE-993 Remove duplicate conversion for MapJoin
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  67. HIVE-992 commons-dhcp not working
      (Bennie Schut via namit)
  68. HIVE-595 throw error if rename fails
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  69. HIVE-999 bug in sampling if denominator != numBuckets
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  70. HIVE-1000 bug in sampling if buckted table is empty
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  71. HIVE-1001 CombinedHiveInputFormat should parse the inputpath correctly
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  72. HIVE-913 no error if user specifies same output table mutliple times
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  73. HIVE-977 NullPointerException when operating on a non-existing partition
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  74. HIVE-1004 Change default memory for Hive client to 256M
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  75. HIVE-1006 getPartitionDescFromPath failing from CombineHiveInputFormat
      (Dave Lerman via namit)
  76. HIVE-927 Check the schema for both inputs of union
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  77. HIVE-302 Check that lines terminated by can only be "\n"
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  78. HIVE-979 selectNoStar is a part of explainPlan
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  79. HIVE-1009 bug in union along with transform
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  80. HIVE-986 Ant "eclipse-files" target is broken for Hadoop 0.20
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  81. HIVE-1017 || and && are not supported currently
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  82. HIVE-916 typedbytes: changes
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  83. HIVE-976 Compare the path in unit tests for sampling
      (John Sichi via namit)
  84. HIVE-1026 Fix test sample6.q to make it deterministic
      (John Sichi via namit)
  85. HIVE-1028. Fix tinyint in TypedBytes.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  86. HIVE-458. Better error messages for fs.default.name.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  87. HIVE-1030 Hive should use scratchDir instead of system temporary directory for storing plans
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  88. HIVE-1030 mapjoin should throw an error if the input is too large
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  89. HIVE-996 describe function throws NPE when when called on UDTF or UDAF
      (Carl Steinbach via namit)
  90. HIVE-1031 describe function array throws ParseException
      (Carl Steinbach via namit)
  91. HIVE-978 Hive jars should follow Hadoop naming and include version
      (Chad Metcalf and Zheng Shao via namit)
  92. HIVE-1038 mapjoin dies if the join prunes all the columns
      (namit via He Yongqiang)
  93. HIVE-1037 SerDe & ObjectInspector for RowContainer mismatch with the input data
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  94. HIVE-1042 incorrect error for function within transform
      (Paul Yang via namit)
  95. HIVE-1039 bug in multi table/directory inserts
      (Ning Zhang via namit)
  96. HIVE-1049. Fix ant targets "eclipse-files" and "javadoc".
      (Carl Steinbach via zshao)
  97. HIVE-1072. Keep CreateTime when a partition is overwritten.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)
  98. HIVE-1059. Date/DateTime/TimeStamp types should throw an error.
      (Paul Yang via zshao)

Older Releases

Release 0.4.0 - 2009-10-11

• INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES    (2)
  1. HIVE-143. Remove the old file based metastore, in favour of the RDBMS based metastore.
     (prasadc via johan)
  2. HIVE-724. Change HiveServer.getSchema() to return Hive types rather than Thrift types. Changed existing getSchema() to getThriftSchema()
     (Eric Hwang via rmurthy)
• NEW FEATURES    (43)
  1. HIVE-354. UDF for length of a string. (Neil Conway via namit).
  2. HIVE-402. Implement UDF regexp.
     (Raghotham Murthy via namit)
  3. HIVE-250. Shared memory java dbm for map-side joins.
     (Joydeep Sen Sarma via zshao)
  4. HIVE-164. Use CASE through GenericUDF
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  5. HIVE-464. Add alter partition method to the meastore interface.
     (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  6. HIVE-352. Column-based storage format RCFile.
     (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  7. HIVE-420. Support regular expressions for column names
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  8. HIVE-463. Add a pre execution hook to ql
     (Ashish Thusoo via prasadc)
  9. HIVE-476. Add getTable and getPartition calls to the ReadEntity and WriteEntity objects in PreExecute hooks.
     (Ashish Thusoo via prasadc)
  10. HIVE-518. Add test mode to hive where input tables are sampled.
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  11. HIVE-509. Add create table like.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  12. HIVE-195. Map-side join.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  13. HIVE-470. Add COALESCE.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  14. HIVE-460. Improve Column Pruning.
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  15. HIVE-563. UDF for parsing the URL: parse_url.
      (Suresh Antony via zshao)
  16. HIVE-338. add/delete jar commands, Hive Server fix for multithreading, cli commands via hiveserver
      (Min Zhou and Joydeep Sen Sarma via jssarma)
  17. HIVE-338. Postfix for HIVE-338.
      (zshao)
  18. HIVE-567. jdbc: integrate hive with pentaho report designer
      (Raghotham Murthy via namit)
  19. HIVE-136. escaping in lazy serde
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  20. HIVE-603. list of maps and vice versa
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  21. HIVE-553. add BinarySortableSerDe
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  22. HIVE-622. add UDF reverse
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  23. HIVE-438. Make Hive work with apache thrift
      (Raghu Murthy via namit)
  24. HIVE-522. Extend GenericUDAF to support complex types
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  25. HIVE-541. add UDF locate and instr
      (Min Zhou via namit)
  26. HIVE-646. add UDF conv, bin and hex
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  27. HIVE-512. add UDF elt.
      (Min Zhou via namit)
  28. HIVE-609. Optimize multi-group by.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  29. HIVE-642. add UDF split
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  30. HIVE-639. create contrib directory
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  31. HIVE-674. add UDFs sin, cos, asin, acos
      (Karan Mangla via namit)
  32. HIVE-668. add UDFs abs, ascii, repeat, lpad, rpad, space, substring
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  33. HIVE-167. add regex serde
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  34. HIVE-665. Get hadoop/mapreduce cluster status from hive server
      (Eric Hwang via rmurthy)
  35. HIVE-580. add 'show functions {pattern}'
      (Scott Chen via namit)
  36. HIVE-656. Add a PMOD (POSITIVE MOD) function.
      (Scott Chen via zshao)
  37. HIVE-698. Add create temporary function for generic UDAF.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  38. HIVE-607. Add udafs for variance and standard deviation
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  39. HIVE-487. Make hive compatibale with hadoop 20
      (Todd Lipcon via namit)
  40. HIVE-640. Add LazyBinarySerDe to Hive.
      (Yuntao Jia via zshao)
  41. HIVE-729. Make AS in select list optional.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  42. HIVE-691. show documentation for functions.
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  43. HIVE-748. Test for extracting urls.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
• IMPROVEMENTS    (33)
  1. HIVE-389. Option to build without ivy
     (jssarma)
  2. HIVE-360. Generalize the FileFormat Interface in Hive.
     (He Yongqiang via zshao)
  3. HIVE-406. Build file improvements. (Joydeep Sen Sarma via zshao).
  4. HIVE-254. Link jobtracker from Hive History in Hive Web Interface.
     (Edward Capriolo via athusoo)
  5. HIVE-502. Optimize RCFile's performance by removeing all synchronized modifiers.
     (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  6. HIVE-204. Provide option to run tests with MiniMRCluster.
     (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  7. HIVE-511. Make DoubleWritable's hashCode more uniform.
     (Zheng Shao via rmurthy)
  8. HIVE-490. Add missing configuration variables to hive-default.xml.
     (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  9. HIVE-528. Map Join followup: split MapJoinObject into MapJoinObjectKey and MapJoinObjectValue.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  10. HIVE-542. UDF: Faster String Like.
      (Yuntao Jia via zshao)
  11. HIVE-521. Move size, if, isnull, isnotnull to GenericUDF.
      (Min Zhou via zshao)
  12. HIVE-439. Merge small files after a map-only job.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  13. HIVE-516. Enable predicate pushdown for junit tests.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  14. HIVE-530. Map Join followup: optimize number of map-reduce jobs.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  15. HIVE-445. Upgrade JPOX to datanuclues plugins.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  16. HIVE-593. UDF and GenericUDF clean-up.
      (Zheng Shao via pchakka)
  17. HIVE-605. Change eclipse classpath for datanuclues.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  18. HIVE-461. Optimize RCFile reading by using column pruning results.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  19. HIVE-628. Remove stray lines from hive-default.xml.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  20. HIVE-629. Concat files for map-reduce jobs.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  21. HIVE-644. Change default size for merging files to 256MB.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  22. HIVE-405. Cleanup operator initialization.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  23. HIVE-652. Turn off auto-merge for insert local.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  24. HIVE-677. Operators to show number of rows forwarded.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  25. HIVE-689. Dump more memory stat periodically.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  26. HIVE-280. Reserve keywords such as database etc.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  27. HIVE-720. Improve ByteStream by removing all synchronized method calls.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  28. HIVE-454. Support escaping of ; in cli.
      (Edward Capriolo via namit)
  29. HIVE-736. Provide a function in Metastore to return the schema of a table.
      (Eric Hwang via rmurthy)
  30. HIVE-617. Add 'jar' service to hive client shell.
      (Edward Capriolo via rmurthy)
  31. HIVE-578. Refactor partition pruning.
      (Ashish Thusoo via namit)
  32. HIVE-737. Support having hadoop jars in HADOOP_HOME/build for running hive cli.
      (Johan Oskarsson via athusoo)
  33. HIVE-750. New partitionpruner does not work with test mode.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
• OPTIMIZATIONS    (5)
  1. HIVE-279. Predicate Pushdown support (Prasad Chakka via athusoo).
  2. HIVE-266. Use Text instead of String (Zheng Shao via namit).
  3. HIVE-427. Add missing config parameters in hive-default.xml.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  4. HIVE-462. Avoid Text->String->Text conversion
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  5. HIVE-610. Move all properties from jpox.properties to hive-site.xml.
     (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
• BUG FIXES    (107)
  1. HIVE-381. Fix JDBC HiveResultSet's next function.
     (Kim P via namit)
  2. HIVE-387. Use URI from FileSystem Object instead of from HADOOPFS directly.
     (jssarma)
  3. HIVE-385. Split Driver's run into compile and execute.
     (Neil Conway via namit)
  4. HIVE-393. Remove unnecessary checks in movetask for file type.
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  5. HIVE-403. remove password param from job config that is submitted to job tracker and from log
     (Prasad Chakka)
  6. HIVE-407. fix permissions for test scripts in release tarball.
     (Ashish Thusoo via namit)
  7. HIVE-414. Add Hive Web Interface code to Eclipse config
     (Prasad Chakka)
  8. HIVE-372. Fix UDF memory consumptions and bad error messages.
     (Zheng Shao via namit)
  9. HIVE-413. Fix multi-table insert.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  10. HIVE-415. Fix long query parsing problems. (Zheng Shao via namit).
  11. HIVE-421. Fix union followed by multi-table insert. (Namit Jain via zshao).
  12. HIVE-423. Change launch templates to use hive_model.jar.
      (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
  13. HIVE-426. Fix undeterministic query plan because of aliasToWork.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  14. HIVE-404. Fix ordering in "SELECT * FROM t SORT BY col1 LIMIT 100" when query is a outer-most query.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  15. HIVE-432. Fix "SORT BY" using only one reducer.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  16. HIVE-435. Fix Null pointer exception if password is null.
      (Prasad Chakka via namit)
  17. HIVE-437. Allow both table.name and col.field
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  18. HIVE-366. testParse should not depend on a static field
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  19. HIVE-433. Fixed union18 and union19 tests.
      (athusoo via johan)
  20. HIVE-324. Fix AccessControlException when loading data.
      (Ashish Thusoo via zshao)
  21. HIVE-395. Fix build problems with eclipse and 0.19 hadoop.
      (Neil Conway via athusoo)
  22. HIVE-456. Add option to run junit tests in quiet mode.
      (Zheng Shao via prasadc)
  23. HIVE-453. Use FileSystem derived from user supplied path when present instead of default.
      (Joydeep Sen Sarma via prasadc)
  24. HIVE-442. Create partitions after data is moved in the query in order to close out an inconsistent window.
      (Prasad Chakka via athusoo)
  25. HIVE-483. Fix incorect handling of comments in middle of a query
      (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  26. HIVE-486. Fix concurrent modification exception in case of empty partitions
      (Namit Jain via prasadc)
  27. HIVE-485. Fix join not to assume all columns are strings.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  28. HIVE-488. Fix load partition for table with multiple partition columns.
      (Prasad Chakka via athusoo)
  29. HIVE-496. UDFDate fails on null.
      (Zheng Shao via pchakka)
  30. HIVE-498. Fix null pointer exception in UDFRegExp when the expression string is empty.
      (Zheng Shao via athusoo)
  31. HIVE-410: Heartbeating for streaming jobs should not depend on stdout.
      (Ashish Thusoo via namit)
  32. HIVE-499. Fix for CAST operator on the same type.
      (Zheng Shao via athusoo)
  33. HIVE-501. Fix UDFLower() bug.
      (Zheng Shao via prasadc)
  34. HIVE-505. console.info prints to stderr.
      (Raghotham Murthy via namit)
  35. HIVE-504. Fix script operator with empty input file.
      (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
  36. HIVE-507. Handle empty files properly.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  37. HIVE-497. Fix predicate pushdowns when all the columns are not selected in the query.
      (Prasad Chakka via athusoo)
  38. HIVE-500. Fix select from newly created table.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  39. HIVE-451. Fix ORDER BY xxx DESC
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  40. HIVE-467. Scratch data location should be on different filesystems for different types of intermediate data.
      (Joydeep Sen Sarma via rmurthy)
  41. HIVE-514. Partition key names should be case insensitive in alter table add partition statement.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  42. HIVE-523. Fix PartitionPruner not to fetch all partitions at once.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  43. HIVE-506. MoveTask should fail if target path cannot be deleted.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  44. HIVE-520. Fix TestTCTLSeparatedProtocol.
      (Johan Oskarsson via zshao)
  45. HIVE-525. Fix Eclipse classpath by adding Hadoop test jar.
      (Prasad Chakka via johan)
  46. HIVE-495. Fix join of a table of ThriftSerDe with complex columns
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  47. HIVE-532. Predicates not pushed above limit
      (Prasad Chakka via namit)
  48. HIVE-534. Fix in the cli so that it does not ignore the first newline character.
      (Raghotham Murthy via athusoo)
  49. HIVE-443. Remove deprecated functions from metastore.
      (Prasad Chaaka via athusoo)
  50. HIVE-479. Change RCFileOutputFormat's generic signatute.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  51. HIVE-533. Predicates containing rand() not pushed above
      (Prasad Chakka via namit)
  52. HIVE-540. Restore test.silent setting
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  53. HIVE-544. Fix predicate push for exprFieldNodeDesc.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  54. HIVE-547. Better logging in ExecDriver
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  55. HIVE-561. Make hash aggregation threshold configurable
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  56. HIVE-529. Some cleanup for join operator
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  57. HIVE-573. Fix TestHiveServer.
      (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
  58. HIVE-575. Fix Map join out-of-memory problem.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  59. HIVE-472. HiveFileFormatUtils's checkInputFormat does not include RCFile.
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  60. HIVE-560. Column Pruning for mapjoins
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  61. HIVE-583. Fix spurious 'default database not found'.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  62. HIVE-587. Duplicate results from multiple TIP
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  63. HIVE-582. bug in column pruning
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  64. HIVE-596. Fix PartitionPruner to work with GenericUDF.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  65. HIVE-590. Pass type information in genFileSinkPlan and improve getSchema call in Driver.
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  66. HIVE-612. Problem in removing temp files in FileSinkOperator.jobClose
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  67. HIVE-608. No type conversion in GenericUDF
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  68. HIVE-616. Make hive work with symbolic linked sub directories
      (Zheng Shao via rmurthy)
  69. HIVE-527. Inserting into a partitioned table without specifying the partition field should fail.
      (He Yongqiang via namit)
  70. HIVE-473. Clean up after tests.
      (Johan Oskarsson via namit)
  71. HIVE-624. Bug in TypeConvertor
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  72. HIVE-555. Support create temporary function for udaf and generic udf
      (Min Zhou via namit)
  73. HIVE-631. Fix TestParse.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  74. HIVE-626. Fix Column Pruner column order bug.
      (Yongqiang He via zshao)
  75. HIVE-623. optimize UDF reverse and UDF length
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  76. HIVE-632. Make conditional task serializable.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  77. HIVE-160. Bug in sampling for subqueries.
      (Raghu Murthy via namit)
  78. HIVE-636. Fix concatenation task with partitioned table.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  79. HIVE-641. fix test udf_reverse.q
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  80. HIVE-635. fix union accepting multiple objectinspectors
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  81. HIVE-643. recognize escaped strings
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  82. HIVE-592. Renaming internal table should rename HDFS.
      (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  83. HIVE-654. renaming thrift serde
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  84. HIVE-666. Propagate errors in FetchTask to client.
      (Zheng Shao via rmurthy)
  85. HIVE-620. bug in displaying function name when more than 1 function points to the same class
      (Emil Ibrishimov via namit)
  86. HIVE-670. dump output column names in explain
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  87. HIVE-673. Bug in handling of null partitions.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  88. HIVE-690. Fix script operator timeout bug
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  89. HIVE-697. GroupByOperator's initialization calls GenericUDAF.newAggregation before GenericUDAF.init
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  90. HIVE-700. Fix test error by adding "DROP FUNCTION".
      (Min Zhou and Namit Jain via zshao)
  91. HIVE-702. bug in drop temporary function
      (Min Zhou via namit)
  92. HIVE-710. Fix serialization bug in BinarySortableSerDe for negative double and float numbers
      (Zheng Shao via pchakka)
  93. HIVE-719. Lazy Array/Map index out of bound bug.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  94. HIVE-725. Add missing classpath: shims/src/common/java. Bug appeared after HIVE-487 was committed.
      (Zheng Shao via rmurthy)
  95. HIVE-711. test for negative double value.
      (Karan Mangla via namit)
  96. HIVE-344. Fixes for running Hive under cygwin.
      (Amr Awadallah via athusoo)
  97. HIVE-740. Fix HiveMetaStore get_fields.
      (Eric Hwang via zshao)
  98. HIVE-597. apache header for jdbc files.
      (Raghu Murthy via namit)
  99. HIVE-772. Fix genConversionSelect for init serde with null.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  100. HIVE-774. Fix the behavior of "/" and add "DIV".
       (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  101. HIVE-776. Make "DIV" an infix operator.
       (Ning Zhang via zshao)
  102. HIVE-764. Fixed json.jar.
       (Raghu Murthy via zshao)
  103. HIVE-794. MergeTask should use COMPRESSRESULT.
       (Saurabh Nanda via zshao)
  104. HIVE-726. Make "ant package -Dhadoop.version=0.17.0" work.
       (Todd Lipcon via zshao)
  105. HIVE-799. final.name should not include hadoop version.
       (Todd Lipcon via zshao)
  106. HIVE-718. Fix Loading data inpath into a new partition.
       (Namit Jain via zshao)
  107. HIVE-864. Fix map-join memory-leak.
       (Namit Jain via zshao)

Release 0.3.1 - Unreleased

• INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES    (none)
• NEW FEATURES    (2)
  1. HIVE-61. Implement "ORDER BY".
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  2. HIVE-376. In strict mode do not allow join without "ON" condition.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
• IMPROVEMENTS    (1)
  1. HIVE-440. Reducer and Join to print out number of rows processed.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
• OPTIMIZATIONS    (none)
• BUG FIXES    (5)
  1. HIVE-416. Fix backtrack in Hive.g.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  2. HIVE-442. Move the data before creating the partition.
     (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  3. HIVE-447. Fix tests on hudson.
     (Ashish Thusoo via zshao)
  4. HIVE-469. Fix errors for cases where the partition or the table is empty.
     (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  5. HIVE-816. Cache MetastoreClient.
     (Dave Lerman via zshao)

Release 0.3.0 - 2009-04-20

• INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES    (none)
• NEW FEATURES    (7)
  1. HIVE-337. LazySimpleSerDe to support multi-level nested array, map, struct types.
     (zshao)
  2. HIVE-313. Add UDF date_add, date_sub, datediff.
     (zshao)
  3. HIVE-79. Print number of rows inserted to table(s).
     (Suresh Antony via zshao)
  4. HIVE-30. Hive Web User Interface.
     (Edward Capriolo via athusoo)
  5. HIVE-343. Include py packages for thrift service.
     (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
  6. HIVE-299. Include php packages for thrift service.
     (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
  7. HIVE-82 Support for building tarballs and javadocs
     (Ashish Thusoo via rmurthy)
• IMPROVEMENTS    (1)
  1. HIVE-132. Show table and describe results to be read via FetchTask.
     (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
• OPTIMIZATIONS    (none)
• BUG FIXES    (33)
  1. HIVE-349. Fix TestCliDriver when there are test cases with no tasks.
     (Suresh Antony via zshao)
  2. HIVE-339. Fix count distinct in 1 map-reduce job with map side aggregation.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  3. HIVE-271. Move test-udfs creation to build-common in order to fix broken 0.17 build.
     (athusoo)
  4. HIVE-286. Use round(xxx,12) to make sure there is no precision matching problem in testCliDriver_udf7.
     (zshao via johan)
  5. HIVE-327. Fix row counts printed in hive history to reflect the count of rows from the query in the session.
     (Suresh Anthony via athusoo)
  6. HIVE-334. Make union3 test output deterministic.
     (Joydeep Sen Sarma via athusoo)
  7. HIVE-320. Fix intermittent nullpointer exception in count(DISTINCT).
     (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  8. HIVE-124. Fix empty aggregations to return 1 row instead of nothing.
     (namit)
  9. HIVE-347. Fix lot of partition scans in strict mode in case of error in partition specification error.
     (namit)
  10. HIVE-251. Throw an error to the CLI if a user defined script fails in TRANSFORM, MAP or REDUCE commands.
      (athusoo)
  11. HIVE-317. Fix HiveServer to accept 1 argument for port.
      (Min Zhou via athusoo)
  12. HIVE-285. Fix to disallow union of different schemas.
      (Raghotham Murthy via namit)
  13. HIVE-253. Fix to disallow computation of rand() at compilation stage.
      (Raghotham Murthy via namit)
  14. HIVE-350. Fix wrong order of aggregations in explain plan.
      (namit)
  15. HIVE-347. undo for Fix lot of partition scans in strict mode in case of error in partition specification error.
      (namit)
  16. HIVE-319. Add UDF for unix timestamp.
      (Hao Liu via namit)
  17. HIVE-363. Use 1 reducer in case of aggregations with no grouping keys.
      (namit)
  18. HIVE-366. Make id a non-bean attribute so that TestParse does not depend on that.
      (namit)
  19. HIVE-342. Fix TestMTQueries
      (Prasad Chakka via namit)
  20. HIVE-318. Fix union all queries.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  21. HIVE-367. Null Pointer when some of the files in the table are empty.
      (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  22. HIVE-278. Add support for Hive History to Hive Web UI.
      (Edward Capriolo via athusoo)
  23. HIVE-356. Treat Object[] and List<Object> differently.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  24. HIVE-373. 1 reducer should be used if no grouping key is present in all scenarios.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  25. HIVE-375. LazySimpleSerDe directly creates a UTF8 buffer for primitive types.
      (Zheng Shao via namit)
  26. HIVE-382. Fix for hash aggr, remove elements from hash table in the loop during close, rather than waiting till the end.
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  27. HIVE-391. Fix for UDAFCount which was not handling merging nulls
      (Namit Jain via rmurthy)
  28. HIVE-384. Fixing UNION ALL when the first job is a map-only job.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  29. HIVE-394. Break plans in Cluster Mode.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  30. HIVE-399. Fix timeout problems caused due to the bigdata test.
      (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  31. HIVE-397. Make union tests deterministic by ordering the output results.
      (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  32. HIVE-400. Fix bug in genColList.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  33. HIVE-390. Make partition pruner tests deterministic by ordering the output results.
      (Namit Jain via athusoo)

Release 0.2.0 - Unreleased

• INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES    (1)
  1. HIVE-194. Support specifying decimal places for ROUND function. ROUND always rounds away from zero now.
     (David Phillips via zshao)
• NEW FEATURES    (19)
  1. HIVE-223. Single map-reduce group-by using map-side aggregation.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  2. HIVE-269. Add log/exp/pow UDF functions to Hive.
     (zshao)
  3. HIVE-258. New UDF IF(test, valueTrue, valueFalseOrNull).
     (zshao)
  4. HIVE-105. Automatically estimate number of required reducers.
     (zshao)
  5. HIVE-176. Added a history log for Hive.
     (Suresh Anthony via athusoo)
  6. HIVE-244. Add SQRT() UDF.
     (Jeff Hammerbacher via zshao)
  7. HIVE-216. Generate ruby bindings for service.
     (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
  8. HIVE-163. JSON udf function added.
     (Hao Liu via zshao)
  9. HIVE-142. Add a metastore check command.
     (Johan Oskarsson via zshao)
  10. HIVE-91. Add ADD PARTITION support to ALTER TABLE in order to add partitions to a table.
      (Johan Oskarsson via athusoo)
  11. HIVE-148. Extend bin/hive to include the lineage tool.
      (Suresh Antony via zshao)
  12. HIVE-147. Add a tool for extracting lineage info from hive sql.
      (Suresh Antony via zshao)
  13. HIVE-48. Support JDBC connections for interoperability between Hive and RDBMS.
      (Raghotham Murthy and Michi Mutsuzaki via dhruba)
  14. HIVE-140. Event Based Infrastructure for Syntax Trees in the compiler.
      (Ashish Thusoo through zshao)
  15. HIVE-98. Dependency management with hadoop core using ivy.
      (Ashish Thusoo through zshao)
  16. HIVE-73. Thrift Server and Client for Hive
      (Raghotham Murthy through zshao)
  17. HIVE-113. Distribute by and sort by support.
      (zshao)
  18. HIVE-118. Add date related functions.
      (zshao)
  19. HIVE-62. Support nested types.
      (Ashish Thusoo via dhruba)
• IMPROVEMENTS    (25)
  1. HIVE-300. DISTRIBUTE BY now supports expressions.
     (zshao)
  2. HIVE-292. Replace MetadataTypedColumnsetSerde with LazySimpleSerDe.
     (zshao)
  3. HIVE-294. Support MAP(a.*), REDUCE(a.*) and TRANSFORM(a.*).
     (zshao)
  4. HIVE-270. Add a lazy-deserialized SerDe for efficient deserialization of rows with primitive types.
     (zshao)
  5. HIVE-288. Removed the old serde package.
     (zshao)
  6. HIVE-240. Support CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS.
     (zshao)
  7. HIVE-126. Don't fetch information on Partitions from HDFS instead of MetaStore.
     (Johan Oskarsson via zshao)
  8. HIVE-209. Enabling asserts in tests.
     (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  9. HIVE-177. Allow specifying custom input and output format in CREATE TABLE.
     (David Phillips via zshao)
  10. HIVE-166. Create eclipse project template.
      (Ashish Thusoo via zshao)
  11. HIVE-186. Refactor code to use a single graph, nodeprocessor, dispatcher and rule abstraction.
      (Ashish Thusoo via zshao)
  12. HIVE-182. Add database name parameter to getTable and dropTable.
      (Johan Oskarsson via zshao)
  13. HIVE-181. Restore UDFTestLength unit test for UDFs.
      (David Phillips via zshao)
  14. HIVE-107. Case structure for bin/hive.
      (Edward Capriolo via zshao)
  15. HIVE-101. Set svn:ignore for the root.
      (Johan Oskarsson via zshao)
  16. HIVE-170. Map-side aggregations to estimate memory size.
      (Namit via zshao)
  17. HIVE-180. Data Generator for thrift-serialized sequence files.
      (zshao)
  18. HIVE-157. Update README.txt to remove refs to mirror.facebook.com.
      (zshao)
  19. HIVE-95. Improve cli error messages by lowering backtracking to 1.
      (Pete Wyckoff through zshao)
  20. HIVE-102. Refactor DDLTask.
      (Johan Oskarsson through zshao)
  21. HIVE-85. New compression options for Hive.
      (Joydeep Sarma through zshao)
  22. HIVE-69. genMapRedTasks uses tree walker.
      (Namit through zshao)
  23. HIVE-249. Give execute permissions to the hive binary
      (Jeff Hammerbacher via athusoo)
  24. HIVE-231. Create junit reports for tests.
      (Johan Oskarsson via athusoo)
  25. HIVE-119. Make error messages more informative.
      (Pete Wyckoff via athusoo)
• OPTIMIZATIONS    (none)
• BUG FIXES    (70)
  1. HIVE-340. Fixed null pointer exception with nulls in map-side aggregation.
     (Namit Jain via zshao)
  2. HIVE-308. UNION ALL: FileSinkOperator now adds files in case the target exists.
     (zshao)
  3. HIVE-276. Fix input3_limit.q for hadoop 0.17.
     (zshao)
  4. HIVE-131. Remove uncommitted files from failed tasks.
     (Joydeep Sen Sarma via zshao)
  5. HIVE-264. TBinarySortable Protocol supports null characters.
     (zshao)
  6. HIVE-255. Propagate user name to Hive metastore.
     (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  7. HIVE-263. TCTLSeparatedProtocol should use UTF-8 to encode/decode the data.
     (zshao)
  8. HIVE-255. Propagate user name to Hive metastore.
     (Prasad Chakka via zshao)
  9. HIVE-235. Fixed DynamicSerDe to work with null values with Thrift Protocols that can have missing fields for null values.
     (zshao)
  10. HIVE-222. Fixed Group by on a combination of disitinct and non distinct aggregates.
      (Ashish Thusoo via zshao)
  11. HIVE-161. Fixed xpath x.y when x is a null list.
      (zshao)
  12. HIVE-206. Fixed partition pruning check for uppercase table names.
      (Ashish Thusoo via zshao)
  13. HIVE-151. Tasks depending on other tasks cannot be a root task.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  14. HIVE-197. Fixed UDFToBoolean.
      (zshao)
  15. HIVE-171. Fixed select star with cluster by, distribute by and sort by.
      (zshao)
  16. HIVE-190. Fixed tests failed due to test running order.
      (zshao)
  17. HIVE-184. Tests fail due to including old hive jar files.
      (David Phillips via zshao)
  18. HIVE-188. Hive CLI quits when stdout is closed.
      (zshao)
  19. HIVE-104. Tables with at least 1 non-string columns to use DynamicSerDe.
      (zshao)
  20. HIVE-158. Make table aliases work for sampled tables in joins.
      (Raghotham Murthy via zshao)
  21. HIVE-168. Fixed join on a subquery with a group by.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  22. HIVE-169. Fixed configuration parameter used for determining join interval in JoinOperator.
      (Namit Jain via zshao)
  23. HIVE-114. Drop partition does not delete data for external tables now.
      (Johan Oskarsson via zshao)
  24. HIVE-144. Hive/ql java source copied to build/ql/java to make it work with eclipse.
      (Johan Oskarsson via zshao)
  25. HIVE-129. Fix aux.jar packaging to work properly with 0.17 and 0.18 versions of hadoop.
      (Joydeep Sarma via zshao)
  26. HIVE-162. Fix join0.q test failure with hadoop 0.17.
      (zshao)
  27. HIVE-146. Fix builds for non-default build directory.
      (David Phillips through zshao)
  28. HIVE-47. CLI to support multiline queries from an input file.
      (Ashish through zshao)
  29. HIVE-103. Disable inserts in sub queries.
      (Namit Jain through zshao)
  30. HIVE-92. Fixed union all for non-embedded query.
      (Namit Jain through zshao)
  31. HIVE-93. Dynamic serde to handle _-prefixed column names in DDL.
      (Pete Wyckoff through zshao)
  32. HIVE-127. Fetch Task to pass the jobconf to SerDe.
      (Namit through zshao)
  33. HIVE-116. Let test depend on deploy.
      (Johan Oskarsson through zshao)
  34. HIVE-90. Fixed TestGetDBs for File.list() order.
      (Johan Oskarsson through zshao)
  35. HIVE-111. Support join without a ON clause.
      (Namit through zshao)
  36. HIVE-77. Thread safe query execution.
      (Joydeep through zshao)
  37. HIVE-86. Drop table should not delete data for external tables.
      (Johan Oskarsson through zshao)
  38. HIVE-108. Sampling to use internal column name.
      (Namit through zshao)
  39. HIVE-60. Fix the build scripts for the new hive tree.
      (Ashish through zshao)
  40. HIVE-54. Create this file to record the patches going into a particular release.
      (dhruba)
  41. HIVE-12. Improve README for Hive.
      (Ashish Thusoo via dhruba)
  42. HIVE-68. Fix casting to short.
      (Ashish Thusoo via dhruba)
  43. HIVE-70. A configuration variable that limits the amount of data writen by a task to its standard error.
      (Joydeep Sen Sarma via dhruba)
  44. HIVE-17. Remove duplicate entries for hive.metastore.uris in config file.
      (Jeff Hammerbacher via dhruba)
  45. HIVE-72. Generate correct results when partition pruning is not strict and no map-reduce jobs are needed.
      (Namim Jain via dhruba)
  46. HIVE-75. Make limit work when applied to outermost block that is not a query.
      (Namim Jain via dhruba)
  47. HIVE-76. Fix for column number mismatch between query and destination tables when alias.* expressions are present in the select list of a join.
      (Ashish Thusoo via dhruba)
  48. HIVE-196. Two test runs can run simultaneously on the same machine.
      (Ashish Thusoo via dhruba)
  49. HIVE-202. Fix Lineage for join queries.
      (Suresh Antony via dhruba)
  50. HIVE-84. Make MetaStore Client thread safe.
      (Prasad Chakka via dhruba)
  51. HIVE-203. Fix eclipse templates to get junit tests to run.
      (Raghotham Murthy via dhruba)
  52. HIVE-220. Incorrect log directory in TestMTQueries causing null pointer exception.
      (Prasad Chakka via dhruba)
  53. HIVE-230. Fix for a Null Pointer Exception that occured while loading a table from a query that returns empty data.
      (Prasad Chakka via dhruba)
  54. HIVE-232. Metastore.warehouse configuration should use inherited hadoop configuration.
      (Prasad Chakka via dhruba)
  55. HIVE-239. Check that replace columns in alter table does not have names that are same as the partitioning columns.
      (Prasad Chakka via athusoo)
  56. HIVE-25. Enable Table aliases in cluster by, distribute by and sort by clauses.
      (Prasad Chakka via athusoo)
  57. HIVE-217. Report progress during FileSinkOperator in order to avoid Stream closes exceptions.
      (Johan Oskarsson via athusoo)
  58. HIVE-242. Fix to allow CLI to interpret line breaks in any CLI command.
      (Prasad Chakka via athusoo)
  59. HIVE-65. Rewrite typechecking to use the walker interface and add Resolvers to UDF and UDAF to support proper implicit casting in a manner similar to other RDBMSs.
      (athusoo)
  60. HIVE-246. Fix to make msck command to look for tables in hdfs that are in the metastore.
      (Johan Oskarsson via athusoo)
  61. HIVE-248. Create file path names properly during the load command in case relative path names were specified.
      (Prasad Chakka via athusoo)
  62. HIVE-179. Make substr behavior similar to other RDBMS.
      (David Phillips via athusoo)
  63. HIVE-257. Set hive history log location to build for tests.
      (Suresh Anthony via athusoo)
  64. HIVE-256. Fix in map side aggregation wherein we were not including private members of the records in calculating the avg size of the rows and we were also not estimating variable length columns properly.
      (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  65. HIVE-262. Fix for joins wherein a merged join having and outer or right outer join gave spurious rows in join.
      (Namit Jain via athusoo)
  66. HIVE-189. Make sampling tests deterministic by sorting output.
      (athusoo)
  67. HIVE-273. Fix avg UDAF which got broken hive 65.
      (athusoo)
  68. HIVE-283. Do case insensitive comparison of aliases in partition pruning.
      (athusoo)
  69. HIVE-1088. RCFileRecordReader's first split will read duplicate rows if the split end is < the first sync mark
      (Yongqiang He via Ning Zhang)
  70. HIVE-1087. Let user script write out binary data into a table
      (Zheng Shao via Ning Zhang)