[jira] [Created] (HIVE-2193) drop partition with partial specification should remove the HDFS directory corresponding to the root of PS

[Ning Zhang (JIRA)]

drop partition with partial specification should remove the HDFS directory 
corresponding to the root of PS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                 Key: HIVE-2193
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2193
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Ning Zhang
            Assignee: Paul Yang


If a table have multiple partitions, say (ds, hr), currently the following 
command:

 alter table T drop partition(ds='1');

won't delete the directory .../T/ds=1, although all subdirectories are deleted. 
This could result in a lot of dangling inodes in HDFS.

--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira