Index: src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/install.xml =================================================================== --- src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/install.xml (revision 1332817) +++ src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/install.xml (working copy) @@ -203,10 +203,6 @@
-- If default hdfs was specified in core-site.xml, path resolves to HDFS location.
Index: src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/cli.xml =================================================================== --- src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/cli.xml (revision 1332817) +++ src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/cli.xml (working copy) @@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ +For most part, you can use the hive cli as well, if you're used to that - it doesn't have the permissions features from the HCatalog CLI, but it has access to the DML statements hive uses.
+ +If using the hive commandline to look at tables created by hcatalog, for example, a table using the json serde, one might get a class not found exception because it depends on using a class found inside the hcat jar that the hive commandline does not know about. In that situation, set environment variable HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH to the directory with your hcat jar(if the examples in the installation doc were followed, that should be /usr/local/hcat/share/hcatalog/)