[HIVE-7224] Set incremental printing to true by default in Beeline

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: Beeline, Clients, JDBC
• Assignee: Sahil Takiar
• Reporter: Vaibhav Gumashta
• Created: 12/Jun/14 16:56
• Updated: 07/May/17 18:47
• Resolved: 27/Sep/16 22:43

Description

See HIVE-7221.

By default beeline tries to buffer the entire output relation before printing it on stdout. This can cause OOM when the output relation is large. However, beeline has the option of incremental prints. We should keep that as the default.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-7221 Beeline buffers the entire output file in memory before writing to stdout
• is related to: HIVE-7448 --incremental=true in Beeline is not compatible with Binary columns (at least for select * from ...)
• is related to: HIVE-6928 Beeline should not chop off "describe extended" results by default
• is related to: HIVE-13393 Beeline: Print help message for the --incremental option

Sub-Tasks

• Honor --incremental flag only if TableOutputFormat is used: Resolved
• Beeline IncrementalRows should buffer rows and incrementally re-calculate width if TableOutputFormat is used: Resolved