Mithun Radhakrishnan created HIVE-17472: -------------------------------------------
Summary: Drop-partition for multi-level partition fails, if data does not exist. Key: HIVE-17472 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-17472 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan Assignee: Chris Drome Raising this on behalf of [~cdrome] and [~selinazh]. Here's how to reproduce the problem: {code:sql} CREATE TABLE foobar ( foo STRING, bar STRING ) PARTITIONED BY ( dt STRING, region STRING ) STORED AS RCFILE LOCATION '/tmp/foobar'; ALTER TABLE foobar ADD PARTITION ( dt='1', region='A' ) ; dfs -rm -R -skipTrash /tmp/foobar/dt=1; ALTER TABLE foobar DROP PARTITION ( dt='1' ); {code} This causes a client-side error as follows: {code} 15/02/26 23:08:32 ERROR exec.DDLTask: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Unknown error. Please check logs. {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)