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 > >