ability to add and drop partitions atomically ---------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2777 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2777 Project: Hive Issue Type: New Feature Components: Metastore Reporter: Aniket Mokashi Fix For: 0.9.0 Hive should have ability to atomically add and drop partitions. This way admins can change partitions atomically without breaking the running jobs. It allows admin to merge several partitions into one. Essentially, we would like to have an api- add_drop_partitions(String db, String tbl_name, List<Partition> addParts, List<List<String>> dropParts, boolean deleteData); This jira covers changes required for metastore and thrift. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira