Hey Maxime,
Looks like there is some confusion here. You need not to recreate partition
any time you update something about the table. If you e.g. are adding new
columns, you can just do alter table add column and then alter table add
partition.. you need not to do anything about existing part
Thanks Ashutosh for your answer. I actually use external tables so that i
don't drop my partitions data.
This is still an odd behavior to me and I don't get why someone would expect
it. Whenever I need to add a column to a table (my table here represent a
log, and it is common to add fields to log
Hey Maxime,
Yeah, thats intended behavior. After you do alter on table, all subsequent
actions on table and partitions will inherit from it. If you want to modify
properties of already existing partitions, you should be able to do
something like 'alter table test_table partition (day='2011-09-02')
Hello,
I am using Hive 0.7 from cloudera cdh3u0 and I encounter a strange behavior
when I update the serdeproperties of a table (for example for the
RegexSerDe).
If you have a simple partitioned table like
create external table test_table (
id int)
partitioned by (day string)
row format serd
