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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-1413: -------------------------------------- Documented in the wiki here: * [DDL -- Alter Table/Partition Protections | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AlterTable/PartitionProtections] > bring a table/partition offline > ------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1413 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1413 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Metastore, Query Processor > Reporter: Namit Jain > Assignee: Siying Dong > Fix For: 0.7.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-1413.1.patch, HIVE-1413.2.patch, HIVE-1413.3.patch, > HIVE-1413.4.patch > > > There should be a way to bring a table/partition offline. > At that time, no read/write operations should be supported on that table. > It would be very useful for housekeeping operations -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)