[HIVE-3779] An empty value to hive.logquery.location can't disable the creation of hive history log files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bing Li
• Created: 07/Dec/12 08:46
• Updated: 06/Nov/14 17:37
• Resolved: 13/Aug/13 06:41

Description

In AdminManual Configuration (https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/adminmanual-configuration.html), the description of hive.querylog.location mentioned that if the variable set to empty string structured log will not be created.

But it fails with the following setting,
<property>
<name>hive.querylog.location</name>
<value></value>
</property>

It seems that it can NOT get an empty value from HiveConf.ConfVars.HIVEHISTORYFILELOC, but the default value.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-4513 disable hivehistory logs by default
• is related to: HADOOP-8056 Configuration doesn't pass empty string values to tasks