A ticket has just been opened to add this functionality. You should vote it up! https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-936
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Andrew O'Brien <obrien.and...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A question about partitioning: All of the examples I've seen insert > into a single hard-coded partition (usually a date) at a time. If I > have a log file that spans a large range of dates, is there any way to > insert it into a partitioned table without having to explicitly > iterate through each date? Something like PARTITION (log_date = > foo.date) (instead of PARTITION (log_date = '2009-11-21'))? > > Thanks, > Andrew >
