After some reading (most notably: blog.fingertap.org/?1a253760), I succeeded in creating a Perl Thrift client, and using it to query my server. Steps: Download, build and install Thrift: http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/download/. Don't forget to make install the code in lib/perl. Download the infrastructure's .thrift files from Hive's SVN, under the dist of your Hive installation (http://svn.ap
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