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Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-9633: ---------------------------------------- The test failures noted here are not related to this patch, +1. Will go ahead and commit. > Add HCatClient.dropPartitions() overload to skip deletion of > partition-directories. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9633 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9633 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: API, HCatalog, Metastore > Affects Versions: 0.14.0 > Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan > Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan > Attachments: HIVE-9633.1.patch > > > {{HCatClient.dropPartitions()}} doesn't provide a way to explicitly skip the > deletion of partition-directory, as {{HiveMetaStoreClient.dropPartitions()}} > does. > This'll come in handy when using HCatClient to drop partitions, but not > delete data. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)