Daniel Dai created HIVE-16638:
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Summary: Get rid of magic constant __HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__ in
syntax
Key: HIVE-16638
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16638
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Daniel Dai
As per discussion in HIVE-16609, we'd like to get rid of magic constant
__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__ in syntax. There are two use cases I currently
realize:
1. alter table t drop partition(p='__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__');
2. select * from t where p='__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__';
Currently we switch p='__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__' to "p is null" internally
for processing. It would be good if we can promote to the syntax level and get
rid of p='__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__' completely.
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