No problem, thanks for your reply.
I'm very curious why this didn't work, this sql come from hive wiki.
The metadata is store in postgres, does it matter?

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bhavesh Shah <bhavesh25s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for previous reply. Actually you had try that one, I didn't saw that.
> Really Sorry.
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Bhavesh Shah <bhavesh25s...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello wd,
>> Try this one... I am not sure about this
>> ALTER TABLE t1 DROP PARTITION(dt = '111')
>>
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>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bhavesh Shah
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:49 PM, wd <w...@wdicc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> We setup a new hive 0.9 client, Found some sql did not work, for example
>>>
>>> hive> create table t1(a int) partitioned by ( dt int );
>>> OK
>>> Time taken: 0.097 seconds
>>> hive> load data local inpath '/tmp/t' into table t1 partition (dt=111);
>>> Copying data from file:/tmp/t
>>> Copying file: file:/tmp/t
>>> Loading data to table default.t1 partition (dt=111)
>>> OK
>>> Time taken: 0.375 seconds
>>> hive> show partitions t1;
>>> OK
>>> dt=111
>>> Time taken: 0.108 seconds
>>> hive> alter table t1 drop partition ( dt=111 );
>>> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Partition not found dt = 111
>>> hive> alter table t1 drop partition ( dt='111' );
>>> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Partition not found dt = '111'
>>>
>>>
>>> So, how to delete the partition?
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> --
> Regards,
> Bhavesh Shah
>

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