Prasanth Jayachandran created HIVE-20707: --------------------------------------------
Summary: Automatic MSCK REPAIR for external tables 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 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 add/drop/sync partitions periodically. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)