Renaming external partition changes location --------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2874 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2874 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Kevin Wilfong Renaming an external partition will change the location of that partition to the default location of a managed partition with the same name. E.g. If ex_table is external and has partition part=1 with location /.../managed_table/part=1 Calling ALTER TABLE ex_table PARTITION (part = '1') RENAME TO PARTITION (part = '2'); Will change the location of the partition to /.../ex_table/part=2 -- 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