[HIVE-1530] Include hive-default.xml and hive-log4j.properties in hive-common JAR

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Component/s: Configuration
• Assignee: Carl Steinbach
• Reporter: Carl Steinbach
• Created: 11/Aug/10 21:44
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28
• Resolved: 04/Jan/12 00:55

Description

hive-common-*.jar should include hive-default.xml and hive-log4j.properties,
and similarly hive-exec-*.jar should include hive-exec-log4j.properties. The
hive-default.xml file that currently sits in the conf/ directory should be removed.

Motivations for this change:

• We explicitly tell users that they should never modify hive-default.xml yet give them the opportunity to do so by placing the file in the conf dir.
• Many users are familiar with the Hadoop configuration mechanism that does not require *-default.xml files to be present in the HADOOP_CONF_DIR, and assume that the same is true for HIVE_CONF_DIR.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: HIVE-1841 datanucleus.fixedDatastore should be true in hive-default.xml
• supercedes: HIVE-2152 Hive throws an NPE if hive-default.xml.

Sub-Tasks

• Bundle Log4j configuration files in Hive JARs: Closed
• Remove hive-default.xml: Resolved