Should we disallow non-string partition columns completely ?
Does anyone depend on that ?


On 5/24/12 6:49 PM, "Namit Jain" <nj...@fb.com> wrote:

>
>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1308427
>
>The patch above broke drop partitions if the partition happens to be
>non-string.
>This is due to a JDO issue with non-string columns.
>
>Is anyone using non-string partition columns ?
>Should be force the partition columns to be only of type string ?
>The documentation probably does not specify anything clearly.
>
>If someone is dependent on non-string partition column, we need to revert
>this patch, or make a
>special case for string partition columns.
>
>Thanks,
>-namit
>
>

Reply via email to