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Jesus Camacho Rodriguez commented on HIVE-20707: ------------------------------------------------ [~prasanth_j], I see there is a branch-3 patch that was never pushed. Should this be backported? It seems to fix issues such as HIVE-21072. > Automatic partition management > ------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-20707 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20707 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 4.0.0 > Reporter: Prasanth Jayachandran > Assignee: Prasanth Jayachandran > Priority: Major > Fix For: 4.0.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-20702.3.patch, HIVE-20707-branch-3.patch, > HIVE-20707.1.patch, HIVE-20707.2.patch, HIVE-20707.4.patch, > HIVE-20707.5.patch, HIVE-20707.6.patch, HIVE-20707.6.patch, HIVE-20707.7.patch > > > In current scenario, to add partitions for external tables to metastore, MSCK > REPAIR command has to be executed manually. To avoid this manual step, > external tables can be specified a table property based on which a background > metastore thread can sync partitions periodically. Tables can also be > specified with partition retention period. Any partition whose age exceeds > the retention period will be dropped automatically. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)