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However, Hive does not know where to find the HCatalog jar by default, so if you use any features that have been introduced by HCatalog, such as a table using the JSON SerDe, you might get a "class not found" exception. In this situation, before you run Hive, set environment variable HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH
to the directory with your HCatalog jar. (If the examples in the Installation document were followed, that should be /usr/local/hcat/share/hcatalog/
).
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