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Naveen Gangam commented on HIVE-19933: -------------------------------------- [~afan] I think it would have been better if this property was never introduced at all. Now that it has been, we have to be a bit careful removing it in a minor release. I think we can remove it from the master branch and perhaps flip it from true to false in other release branches so users can expect a different behavior by default while having the ability to switch back to the current behavior. > ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION - Partition Not Found > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-19933 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19933 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: HiveServer2 > Affects Versions: 1.2.2 > Reporter: BELUGA BEHR > Assignee: Alice Fan > Priority: Major > > {code:sql} > ALTER TABLE web_logsz DROP PARTITION (`date`='xyz') > -- SemanticException [Error 10001]: Table not found web_logsz > ALTER TABLE web_logs DROP PARTITION (`date`='xyz') > -- Success. > {code} > There is no 'xyz' partition for the 'date' column. To make this more > consistent, the query should fail if the user tries to drop a partition that > does not exist -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)