afaik there is nothing like that currently. File a feature for this on the JIRA?
Ashish On May 19, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Jasper Knulst wrote: > Hi, > > I have a partitioned external table on Hive 0.7. New subfolders are regularly > added to the base table HDFS folder. > I now have to perform this scan myself and let an external tool create new > partitions by generating and firing ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION commands. > > Is there an easier way to have hive scan the base table folder to see if > there are any new partitions around? Something like REBUILD PARTITIONS > perhaps?? > > > > > Couldn't find anything similar on the Hive/LanguageManual/DDL > > -- > Kind Regards > > > > Jasper
