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• The user can also decide to run in a particular cluster.
  • Use cluster <ClusterName>
• The system will not make an attempt to choose the cluster for the user, but only try to figure out if the query can be run
  in the <clusterName>. If the query can run in this cluster, it will succeed. Otherwise, it will fail.
• The user can go back to the behavior to use the default cluster.
  • Use default cluster

• Eventually, hive will provide some utilities to copy a table/partition from the primary cluster to the secondary clusters.
  In the first cut, the user needs to do this operation outside hive (one simple way to do so, is distcp the partition from the
  primary to the secondary cluster, and then update the metadata directly - via the thrift api).

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