This parameter has indeed been removed; it is treated as always true now, because setting it to false just produced incorrect tables.
From: Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com<mailto:mich.talebza...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Friday, April 29, 2016 at 02:51 To: user <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: Hive configuration parameter hive.enforce.bucketing does not exist in Hive 2 Is the parameter --set hive.enforce.bucketing = true; depreciated in Hive 2 as it causes hql code not to work? hive> set hive.enforce.bucketing = true; Query returned non-zero code: 1, cause: hive configuration hive.enforce.bucketing does not exists. Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com<http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/>