Some discussion for this has happened on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2702 Is the underlying problem same as the one which I described on that jira ?
Thanks, Ashutosh On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Namit Jain <nj...@fb.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
