Should I go ahead and file a jira to disallow non-string partition columns ? Or, someone depends on that functionality.
On 5/25/12 10:01 AM, "Namit Jain" <nj...@fb.com> wrote: >Yes, but the meta-question is: > >Is anyone dependent on non-string partition columns ? Should we drop the >support for non-string >partition columns ? > > >Thanks, >-namit > >On 5/24/12 11:21 PM, "Ashutosh Chauhan" <hashut...@apache.org> wrote: > >>Some discussion for this has happened on >>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2702 Is the underlying problem >>same as the one which I described on that jira ? >> >>Thanks, >>Ashutosh >> >>On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Namit Jain <nj...@fb.com> wrote: >> >>> Should we disallow non-string partition columns completely ? >>> Does anyone depend on that ? >>> >>> >>> On 5/24/12 6:49 PM, "Namit Jain" <nj...@fb.com> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1308427 >>> > >>> >The patch above broke drop partitions if the partition happens to be >>> >non-string. >>> >This is due to a JDO issue with non-string columns. >>> > >>> >Is anyone using non-string partition columns ? >>> >Should be force the partition columns to be only of type string ? >>> >The documentation probably does not specify anything clearly. >>> > >>> >If someone is dependent on non-string partition column, we need to >>>revert >>> >this patch, or make a >>> >special case for string partition columns. >>> > >>> >Thanks, >>> >-namit >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >
