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Zhihua Deng commented on HIVE-22458: ------------------------------------ Would anyone have any ideas about this improvement? similar implement can be seen here: [https://teradata.github.io/presto/docs/0.167-t/sql/show-partitions.html] > Add more constraints on showing partitions > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-22458 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-22458 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Zhihua Deng > Priority: Major > > When we showing partitions of a table with thousands of partitions, all the > partitions will be returned and it's not easy to catch the specified one from > them, this make showing partitions hard to use. We can add where/limit/order > by constraints to show partitions like: > show partitions table_name [partition_specs] where partition_field >= value > order by partition_field desc limit n; > -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)