Kevin Wilfong created HIVE-3149: ----------------------------------- Summary: Dynamically generated paritions deleted by BlockMergeTask Key: HIVE-3149 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3149 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Query Processor Reporter: Kevin Wilfong Assignee: Kevin Wilfong Priority: Critical Fix For: 0.10.0
When creating partitions in a table using dynamic partitions and a Block Merge Task is executed at the end of the query, some partitions may be lost. Specifically if the values of two or more dynamic partition keys end in the same sequence of numbers, all but the largest will be dropped. I was not able to confirm it, but I suspect that if a map reduce job is speculated as part of the merge, the duplicate data will not be deleted either. E.g. insert overwrite table merge_dynamic_part partition (ds = '2008-04-08', hr) select key, value, if(key % 2 == 0, 'a1', 'b1') as hr from srcpart_merge_dp_rc where ds = '2008-04-08'; In this query, if a Block Merge Task is executed at the end, only one of the partitions ds=2008-04-08/hr=a1 and ds=2008-04-08/hr=b1 will appear in the final table. -- 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