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He Yongqiang updated HIVE-1436: ------------------------------- Assignee: (was: He Yongqiang) > specify partition metadata at insertion time > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1436 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1436 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Namit Jain > > Currently, the partition metadata is inferred from the table being inserted > into. > So, it is not possible to convert a old partition to RCfile unless the table > is first converted to RCFile, and the older > partition then inserted into. > But, for some reason, if the table cannot be converted to RCFile (say a old > process is loading data into that table), > there is no way to convert the older partition from sequence file to rcfile. > There should be a way to do so, something like: > insert overwrite table T partition (..) > select...... > stored as RCFile; -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira