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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-3466:
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Hive supports both partitioned and unpartitioned external tables. In both
cases, when a new table/partition is being added, the location is also
specified for the new table/partition. Let us consider a specific example:
create table T (key string, value string) partitioned by (ds string, hr string);
insert overwrite table T partition (ds='1', hr='1') ...;
..
insert overwrite table T partition (ds='1', hr='24') ...;
T is a partitioned table by date and hour, and Tsignal is an external table
which conceptually denotes the creation of the signal table.
create external table Tsignal (key string, value string) partitioned by (ds
string);
When all the hourly partitions are created for a day (ds='1'), the
corresponding partition can be added to Tsignal
alter table Tsignal add partition (ds='1') location 'Location of T'/ds=1;
There is a implicit dependency between Tsignal@ds=1 and T@ds=1/hr=1,
T@ds=1/hr=2, .... T@ds=1/hr=24, but that dependency is not captured anywhere
in the metastore. It would be useful to have an ability to explicitly create
that dependency. This dependency can be used for all kinds of auditing
purposes. For eg. when the following query is performed:
select .. from Tsignal where ds = '1';
the inputs only contains Tsignal@ds=1, but is should also contain T@ds=1/hr=1,
T@ds=1/hr=2,....T@ds=1/hr=24
The idea is to let the user specify and store the dependency explicitly.
alter table Tsignal add partition (ds='1') location 'Location of T'/ds=1
depends table T partition (ds='1');
> maintain dependency between external table partitions and managed table
> partitions
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> Key: HIVE-3466
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3466
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Namit Jain
>
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