Index: conf/hive-default.xml =================================================================== --- conf/hive-default.xml (revision 989015) +++ conf/hive-default.xml (working copy) @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ - hive.merge.size.smallfiles.avgsize + hive.merge.smallfiles.avgsize 16000000 When the average output file size of a job is less than this number, Hive will start an additional map-reduce job to merge the output files into bigger files. This is only done for map-only jobs if hive.merge.mapfiles is true, and for map-reduce jobs if hive.merge.mapredfiles is true. @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ - hive.default.partition.name + hive.exec.default.partition.name __HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__ The default partition name in case the dynamic partition column value is null/empty string or anyother values that cannot be escaped. This value must not contain any special character used in HDFS URI (e.g., ':', '%', '/' etc). The user has to be aware that the dynamic partition value should not contain this value to avoid confusions.