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Kevin Wilfong commented on HIVE-3283: ------------------------------------- With the recent improvements to bucketing and sorting made primarily by Namit and Navis recently, this already seems like it's supported, it's just a matter of making the switch to use partition metadata. I re-enabled allowing users to change the number of buckets/bucketed and sorted columns of a partitioned table containing data (otherwise this change won't provide much benefit). > bucket information should be used from the partition instead of the table > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3283 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3283 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Namit Jain > Assignee: Kevin Wilfong > > Currently Hive uses the number of buckets from the table object. > Ideally, the number of buckets from the partition should be used -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira