If you are using Amazon (AWS), you can use 'recover partitions' to enable all top level partitions. This will add required dynamicity.
Regards, Puneet Khatod From: Bertrand Dechoux [mailto:decho...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 July 2012 21:15 To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Continuous log analysis requires 'dynamic' partitions, is that possible? Hi, Let's say logs are stored inside hdfs using the following file tree /<logtype>/<month>/<day>. So for apache, that would be : /apache/01/01 /apache/01/02 ... /apache/02/01 ... I would like to know how to define a table for this information. I found out that the table should be external and should be using partitions. However, I did not found any way to dynamically create the partitions. Is there no automatic way to define them? In that case, the partition 'template' would be <month>/<day> with the root being apache. I know how to 'hack a fix' : create a script which would generate all the "add partition statement" and run the resulting statements without caring about the results because partitions may not exist or may already have been added. Better, I could parse the result of 'show partition' for the table and run only the relevant statement but it still feels like a hack. Is there any clean way to do it? Regards, Bertrand Dechoux Any comments or statements made in this email are not necessarily those of Tavant Technologies. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. All e-mails sent from or to Tavant Technologies may be subject to our monitoring procedures.
