Hey Hive devs! What about removing list bucketing from hive? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-17852
I remember I tried this, but the patch became huge, so I'm thinking about simply disabling the syntax first for 4.0 (making the user unable to create a table like that), and then we can gradually remove it from the codebase. Why: see details in jira. Regards, Laszlo Bodor