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He Yongqiang updated HIVE-2125:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> alter table concatenate fails and deletes data
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> Key: HIVE-2125
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2125
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
> Assignee: He Yongqiang
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: HIVE-2125.1.patch, HIVE-2125.2.patch
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> the number of reducers is not set by this command (unlike other hive
> queries). since mapred.reduce.tasks=-1 (to let hive infer this automatically)
> - jobtracker fails the job (number of reducers cannot be negative)
> hive> alter table ad_imps_2 partition(ds='2009-06-16') concatenate;
> alter table ad_imps_2 partition(ds='2009-06-16') concatenate;
> Starting Job = job_201103101203_453180, Tracking URL =
> http://curium.data.facebook.com:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_201103101203_453180
> Kill Command = /mnt/vol/hive/sites/curium/hadoop/bin/../bin/hadoop job
> -Dmapred.job.tracker=curium.data.facebook.com:50029 -kill
> job_201103101203_453180
> Hadoop job information for null: number of mappers: 0; number of reducers: 0
> 2011-04-22 10:21:24,046 null map = 100%, reduce = 100%
> Ended Job = job_201103101203_453180 with errors
> Moved to trash: /user/facebook/warehouse/ad_imps_2/_backup.ds=2009-06-16
> after the job fails - the partition is deleted
> thankfully it's still in trash
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