Ning Zhang created HIVE-3586: -------------------------------- Summary: External partition Key: HIVE-3586 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3586 Project: Hive Issue Type: New Feature Components: Query Processor Reporter: Ning Zhang
External tables are extremely useful when two or more tables share the same data but would like to avoid the data copy and ownership conflicts. We found it useful to extend the "external" concept to the partition level: some partitions of a managed table could be external, so that dropping an external partition won't delete the data. -- 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