Alter table rename partition column does not recognize the column name. It's ok
I dropped the table and created a new one and executed ADD PARTITION. and
provided LOCATION
Sanjay
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On Jun 12, 2013, at 9:53 AM, "Stephen Sprague"
mailto:sprag...@gmail.com>> wrote:
all you have
all you have to do is create a partitioned test table and run an alter
table command to rename the partition column(s) - and see what happens.
That's about as simple as it gets. It either works or it doesn't. :)
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Nitin Pawar wrote:
> currently hive partitions on
currently hive partitions on hdfs stored as col1=val1/col2=val2
looking at this if you change the column name in the metadata, I am not
sure you will be able to locate the data with old column name. other way
would be alter table and and run hdfs move to reflect your new column name
in the partiti
Hi
I have external tables where I want to change the name of the partition column,
locations remaining constant
Is there a way to do this…Else I will drop and create the table with new
partition column names and run my scripts to ADD PARTITION, with LOCATION
specified
Thanks
sanjay
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