Thanks for this clarification. I've revised the Add Partitions section <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AddPartitions> in the wiki accordingly.
-- Lefty On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Satish Mittal <satish.mit...@inmobi.com> wrote: > 'ALTER TABLE .. ADD PARTITION..' would just a partition entry for the > table in hive metastore. It doesn't perform any data loading, instead it > expects the data to be loaded already in the file pointed to by LOCATION. > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Raymond Lau <r...@ooyala.com> wrote: > >> I've created an external table partitioned by a field and am attempting >> to load in the data via the command 'ALTER TABLE partitioned_table_test ADD >> PARTITION (pcode = '123') LOCATION '/path/to/parquet/files';' using a >> custom Parquet SerDe. >> >> Does loading in the data this way call the serializer() function in the >> SerDe at all? >> >> I've tried adding System.out.println statements in my deserializer and >> serializer to debug and no output seems to come from the Serializer >> function. >> >> -- >> *Raymond Lau* >> Software Engineer - Intern | >> r...@ooyala.com | (925) 395-3806 >> > > > _____________________________________________________________ > The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the > use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others > authorized to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged > information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified > that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance > on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be > unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your > system. The firm is neither liable for the proper and complete transmission > of the information contained in this communication nor for any delay in its > receipt.
