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Janaki Lahorani commented on HIVE-17824:
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Thanks [~pvary]. I filed HIVE-19174 to track the same.
> msck repair table should drop the missing partitions from metastore
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> Key: HIVE-17824
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-17824
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Vihang Karajgaonkar
> Assignee: Janaki Lahorani
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: HIVE-17824.1.patch, HIVE-17824.2.patch,
> HIVE-17824.3.patch
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> {{msck repair table <tablename>}} is often used in environments where the new
> partitions are loaded as directories on HDFS or S3 and users want to create
> the missing partitions in bulk. However, currently it only supports addition
> of missing partitions. If there are any partitions which are present in
> metastore but not on the FileSystem, it should also delete them so that it
> truly repairs the table metadata.
> We should be careful not to break backwards compatibility so we should either
> introduce a new config or keyword to add support to delete unnecessary
> partitions from the metastore. This way users who want the old behavior can
> easily turn it off.
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