[HIVE-6561] Beeline should accept -i option to Initializing a SQL file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Release Note: Document the new feature.
• Tags: TODOC14
• Assignee: Navis Ryu
• Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
• Created: 06/Mar/14 01:39
• Updated: 01/Sep/16 02:28
• Resolved: 18/Jun/14 23:32

Description

Hive CLI has -i option. From Hive CLI help:

...
 -i <filename>                    Initialization SQL file
...

However, Beeline has no such option:

xzhang@xzlt:~/apa/hive3$ ./packaging/target/apache-hive-0.14.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/apache-hive-0.14.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/bin/beeline -u jdbc:hive2:// -i hive.rc
...
Connected to: Apache Hive (version 0.14.0-SNAPSHOT)
Driver: Hive JDBC (version 0.14.0-SNAPSHOT)
Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ
-i (No such file or directory)
Property "url" is required
Beeline version 0.14.0-SNAPSHOT by Apache Hive
...

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-14677 Beeline should support executing an initial SQL script
• relates to: HIVE-5867 JDBC driver and beeline should support executing an initial SQL script
• relates to: HIVE-5160 HS2 should support .hiverc
• links to: review board