https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5122
2013/8/20 Navis류승우 <navis....@nexr.com>: > Looks like a bug. I'll fix that. > > 2013/8/15 Jan Dolinár <dolik....@gmail.com>: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Consider following DDL: >> >> CREATE TABLE partition_test >> (a INT) >> PARTITIONED BY (b INT); >> >> ALTER TABLE partition_test ADD >> PARTITION (b=1) location '/tmp/test1' >> PARTITION (b=2) location '/tmp/test2'; >> >> Now lets have a look what was created: >> >> DESCRIBE EXTENDED partition_test PARTITION (b=1); >> DESCRIBE EXTENDED partition_test PARTITION (b=2); >> >> Both describe statements yield "location:hdfs://example.com:9000/tmp/test1", >> which is obviously incorrect. >> >> This behavior *is* mentioned on wiki[1], but the article speaks specifically >> of hive 0.7. I just tested this in versions 0.7.1 and 0.10.0, and they both >> exhibit this bug. I wasn't even able to find a JIRA for this issue, was I >> looking wrong? Or should a new one be created? >> >> Best regards, >> Jan Dolinar >> >> [1] >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AddPartitions