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authorxin Wu <xinwu@us.ibm.com>2015-11-08 12:28:19 -0800
committerReynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>2015-11-08 12:28:19 -0800
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[SPARK-10046][SQL] Hive warehouse dir not set in current directory when not …
Doc change to align with HiveConf default in terms of where to create `warehouse` directory. Author: xin Wu <xinwu@us.ibm.com> Closes #9365 from xwu0226/spark-10046-commit.
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@@ -1627,8 +1627,10 @@ YARN cluster. The convenient way to do this is adding them through the `--jars`
When working with Hive one must construct a `HiveContext`, which inherits from `SQLContext`, and
adds support for finding tables in the MetaStore and writing queries using HiveQL. Users who do
not have an existing Hive deployment can still create a `HiveContext`. When not configured by the
-hive-site.xml, the context automatically creates `metastore_db` and `warehouse` in the current
-directory.
+hive-site.xml, the context automatically creates `metastore_db` in the current directory and
+creates `warehouse` directory indicated by HiveConf, which defaults to `/user/hive/warehouse`.
+Note that you may need to grant write privilege on `/user/hive/warehouse` to the user who starts
+the spark application.
{% highlight scala %}
// sc is an existing SparkContext.