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Navis commented on HIVE-5220: ----------------------------- Current implementation is calling getContentSummary() for all removing partitions and I cannot sure it's neglectable overhead for underlying FS. > Add option for removing intermediate directory for partition, which is empty > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5220 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5220 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Navis > Assignee: Navis > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HIVE-5220.D12729.1.patch > > > For deeply nested partitioned table, intermediate directories are not removed > even if there is no partitions in it by removing them. > {noformat} > /deep_part/c=09/d=01 > /deep_part/c=09/d=01/e=01 > /deep_part/c=09/d=01/e=02 > /deep_part/c=09/d=02 > /deep_part/c=09/d=02/e=01 > /deep_part/c=09/d=02/e=02 > {noformat} > After removing partition (c='09'), directory remains like this, > {noformat} > /deep_part/c=09/d=01 > /deep_part/c=09/d=02 > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)