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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-2874: ---------------------------------- You are right. The location should not change by a rename in external's table partition. > Renaming external partition changes location > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2874 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2874 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Kevin Wilfong > Assignee: Zhenxiao Luo > Attachments: HIVE-2874.1.patch.txt, HIVE-2874.2.patch.txt, > HIVE-2874.3.patch.txt > > > Renaming an external partition will change the location of that partition to > the default location of a managed partition with the same name. > E.g. If ex_table is external and has partition part=1 with location > /.../managed_table/part=1 > Calling ALTER TABLE ex_table PARTITION (part = '1') RENAME TO PARTITION (part > = '2'); > Will change the location of the partition to /.../ex_table/part=2 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira