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Brock Noland updated HIVE-8648: ------------------------------- Description: Since HIVE-3777 users who want to set the number of rows for a table, must do as follows: {noformat} alter table ... set tblproperties ('numRows' = '12345', 'STATS_GENERATED_VIA_STATS_TASK' = 'true'); {noformat} Which is strange because (1) users can know the numbers of rows and (2) the stat is not generated by a stats task. was: Since HIVE-3777 users who know the number of rows in a table and want to set that statistic must do: {noformat} alter table ... set tblproperties ('numRows' = '12345', 'STATS_GENERATED_VIA_STATS_TASK' = 'true'); {noformat} Users should be able to set the number of rows. > numRows cannot be set by user > ----------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-8648 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8648 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Brock Noland > Assignee: Brock Noland > Attachments: HIVE-8648.1.patch > > > Since HIVE-3777 users who want to set the number of rows for a table, must do > as follows: > {noformat} > alter table ... set tblproperties ('numRows' = '12345', > 'STATS_GENERATED_VIA_STATS_TASK' = 'true'); > {noformat} > Which is strange because (1) users can know the numbers of rows and (2) the > stat is not generated by a stats task. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)