I am not getting any error and my hive version is 0.13 On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you getting an error or does the partition just not get deleted? If > you get an error message can you share it? What version of Hive are you > using? > > Alan. > > Megha Garg <megha.ga...@gmail.com> > March 23, 2015 at 5:43 > Hi, > > I am new to hive. I have created one ORC table with partitioning where my > partition looks like below:- > > *date=2014-01-01 00%3A00%3A00.0* > *date=2014-01-02 00%3A00%3A00.0* > *date=2014-01-03 00%3A00%3A00.0* > > I want to delete my second partition (date=2014-01-02 00%3A00%3A00.0) but > i am not able to do so. I am using the below query:- > > * alter table my_tbl drop partition (date='2014-01-0200.00.00.0') ;* > > But it is not working. How can i delete it? > >