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Chinna Rao Lalam resolved HIVE-2016. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Implemented In trunk It is implemented > alter partition should throw exception if the specified partition does not > exist. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2016 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2016 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Affects Versions: 0.8.0 > Environment: Hadoop 0.20.1, hive-0.8.0-SNAPSHOT and SUSE Linux > Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (i586) - Kernel 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp (5). > Reporter: Chinna Rao Lalam > Assignee: Chinna Rao Lalam > > To reproduce the issue follow the below steps > {noformat} > set hive.exec.drop.ignorenonexistent=false; > create table page_test(view INT, userid INT, page_url STRING) PARTITIONED > BY(dt STRING, country STRING) STORED AS A TEXTFILE; > LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/test.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE page_test > PARTITION(dt='10-10-2010',country='US'); > LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/test.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE page_test > PARTITION(dt='10-12-2010',country='IN'); > {noformat} > {noformat} > ALTER TABLE page_test DROP PARTITION (dt='23-02-2010',country='UK'); > {noformat} > This query should throw exception because the requested partition doesn't > exist > This issue related to HIVE-1535 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)