No definitely internal. It's loaded from an external table. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Furcy Pin" <pin.fu...@gmail.com> To: user@hive.apache.org Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 9:21:06 AM Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION not working on S3
Hi Richard, could you please check if your table is EXTERNAL? You can see it with a "DESCRIBE FORMATTED table_name ;" That's what external tables are for, they don't delete underlying data when you drop them. On 5 April 2018 at 15:18, Richard A. Bross < r...@oaktreepeak.com > wrote: I think that someone put a file in there manually. Would that prevent Hive from dropping the partition. I also did a "drop table" and the s3 object keys persisted. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A. Bross" < r...@oaktreepeak.com > To: user@hive.apache.org Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 9:14:52 AM Subject: ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION not working on S3 Hi, I have a Hive managed table on S3, "api_measurements". I've tried dropping a partition like so: hive> alter table api_measurements drop if exists partition(daydate='2018-04-04', epoch=1522876500); Dropped the partition daydate=2018-04-04/epoch=1522876500 OK Time taken: 2.109 seconds Yet the data is still on S3. Because object keys on S3 are always strings, I also tried this: hive> alter table api_measurements drop partition(daydate='2018-04-04', epoch='1522876500'); OK Time taken: 0.135 seconds Yet the object keys and data are still there. I assume that Im missing something really simple. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks
