That's Amazon's extension to Hive and it's really handy. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Tim Spence <yogi.wan.ken...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Is this functionality handled by ALTER TABLE [name] RECOVER PARTITIONS? > Take a look at this presentation for context: > http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-office-hours-amazon-elastic-mapreduce > > Best of luck, > Tim > > > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Jasper Knulst <jasper.knu...@vlc.nl>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 >> > >
