Sai, Maybe I don't understand your question properly but creating an external table on a partitioned table is no different than create an external table on a non-partitioned one.
Your syntax looks right. After table creation, you would have to add all existing partitions of the table so that the new table's metadata is properly populated. You can do that using a command like "ALTER TABLE page_access_m RECOVER PARTITIONS" on Amazon EMR Hive or using msck on Apache Hive (more details at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-874) Does that answer your question? On a related note, having two tables over the same data could be troublesome. For example, if one query adds a partition to one table, you would have to remember to recover partitions on the on the other table before you access your data through it. If the schema for both the tables is the same (except the fact that one is managed while other is external), any particular reason you'd like to create a new table? Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sai Naga" <freshair1...@gmail.com> To: user@hive.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:19:25 PM Subject: create external table on existing hive partitioned table ? Is it possible, to create external table on a existing hive table which is partitioned. I have a existing hive table which is partitioned by dt and group like below desc page_access; page string country string dt string ( Partitioned column ) group string ( Partitioned column ) dfs -tail file /user/hive/warehouse/page_access/dt=2012-06-01/group=a/000003_0 PXXXXX1 {"UY": 2, "BR": 1} PXXXXX2 {"LV": 1, "BR": 1} Is it possible to define a external table something like.. create external table page_access_m ( page string country map(<string>,<int>) )PARTITIONED BY(dt STRING, group STRING) location /user/hive/warehouse/page_access; currently I'm using hive.0.6 Thanks Sai
