Margus: The current implementation doesn¹t support ³current date². It needs to be relative to nominal time (e.g. data_feed in your example).
Thanks, Ying On 2/14/16, 11:39 PM, "Margus Roo" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi > >Maybe it is a dumb question but in case I have table with partition in >example date_feed and flume puts data in to the right directories. >Now I have feed_1 hive table (partition=date_feed) -> process -> feed_2 >hive table. >First I'd like that process creates partition like: ALTER TABLE >tablename ADD PARTITION (date_feed="current date") LOCATION (right >location in HDFS) >Is is possible? I am a little confused. Does process starts if there is >no partition exists is hive table already? > >-- >Margus (margusja) Roo >http://margus.roo.ee >skype: margusja >+372 51 48 780 > >
