Yes, but the meta-question is: Is anyone dependent on non-string partition columns ? Should we drop the support for non-string partition columns ?
Thanks, -namit On 5/24/12 11:21 PM, "Ashutosh Chauhan" <hashut...@apache.org> wrote: >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 >> > >> > >> >>
