[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-6589) Automatically add partitions for external tables

2014-03-07 Thread Steve Hoffman (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6589?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13924704#comment-13924704 ] Steve Hoffman commented on HIVE-6589: - This is a great idea to have an alternate

Re: plugable partitioning

2013-04-15 Thread Steve Hoffman
if I have made any wrong assumption > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Steve Hoffman wrote: > > > Looking for some pointers on where the partitioning is figured out in the > > source when a query is executed. > > I'm investigating an alternative partitioning

plugable partitioning

2013-04-15 Thread Steve Hoffman
Looking for some pointers on where the partitioning is figured out in the source when a query is executed. I'm investigating an alternative partitioning scheme based on date patterns (using external tables). The situation is that I have data being written to some HDFS root directory with some date