The only drawbacks I can think of are 1) As I mentioned, view partitions will not have an associated region, but I don't think this matters to anyone else.
2) There will be an inconsistency in DESCRIBE FORMATTED, in that for view partitions it will not list storage data. This seems inherent in the fact that view partitions are purely metadata, and it is an improvement on the null pointer exception that occurred in previous releases. I created a JIRA to do this and uploaded a patch here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2961 Kevin On 4/18/12 2:08 PM, "Carl Steinbach" <c...@cloudera.com> wrote: >Hi Kevin > > >> I can add a patch removing the need for this script and the script >>itself >> to be included in the release. >> > >This sounds like the best option to me. Are there any drawbacks to this >approach? > >Thanks. > >Carl
