Did you try ALTER TABLE table ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (partition=NULL);
If that does not work you will need to create a dynamic partition type query that will create the dummy partition. File a jira if the above syntax does not work. There should be SOME way to create the default partition by hand. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Ivan Kruglov <ivan.krug...@booking.com>wrote: > Hello to everyone, > > I'm working on the task of syncing data between two tables which have > similar structure (read the same set of partitions). The tables are in > different data centers and one table is a backup copy of another one. I'm > trying to achieve this goal through distcp-ing data into target DC in > temporary folder, recreating all needed partitions in target table and > moving files from temporary place to final place. But I'm stuck on issue of > creating partitions with value ' __HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__' > > So, my question is: Is it possible in hive to manually create partition > with '__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__' value? > > Neither of this way work: > ALTER TABLE table ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (partition=); > ALTER TABLE table ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (partition=''); > ALTER TABLE table ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION > (partition='__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__'); > > Thank you. > Ivan Kruglov.
