Can Hive recursively descend into subdirectories without partitions or editing hive-site.xml?

Question

I have some web server logs that I\'d like to query with Hive. The directory structure, in HDFS, looks like this:

/data/access/web1/2014/09
/data/access/web1         


        

Answer 1

Using Hive in HDInsight, I set the following properties before I create my external table in the Hive query and it works for me.

SET hive.mapred.supports.subdirectories=TRUE;
SET mapred.input.dir.recursive=TRUE;