Hi all, I'd like to restart the discussion on HIVE-28219 <https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/5223> to support dropping partitions by names on the client side. Here are my considerations:
1. The rest api `drop_partitions_req` supports dropping by both partition names and expressions, but the provided `IMetaStoreClient` only supports expressions now. 2. Some engines like Spark could get the list of partition names, but now it could only drop a single partition of a partition name in a call, it could improve the performance if supporting drop partitions by names in batch. Would love to hear your thoughts and see if we can move forward. Best regards, Wechar Yu Github: https://github.com/wecharyu
