[HIVE-1825] Different defaults for hive.metastore.local

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Configuration, Metastore
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lars Francke
• Created: 02/Dec/10 23:29
• Updated: 16/Dec/11 23:55
• Resolved: 02/Nov/11 08:15

Description

hive-default.xml sets hive.metastore.local to true. In the code however there is this:

HiveMetaStoreClient.java

boolean localMetaStore = conf.getBoolean("hive.metastore.local", false);

This leads to different behaviour depending on whether hbase-default.xml is on the classpath or not.....which can lead to some confusion

I can supply a patch - should be pretty similar. I just don't know what the "real" default should be. My guess would be true.