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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-2618: ---------------------------------- https://reviews.facebook.net/D105 > Describe partition returns table columns but should return partition columns > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2618 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2618 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Kevin Wilfong > Assignee: Namit Jain > > If a partitioned table and some partitions are created, and then the table is > altered adding a columns, if describe is called on the partitions created > before the columns were added it will show the new columns, even though it > should not. In particular, in the metastore, the partition will not have > these columns. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira