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Sergey Shelukhin updated HIVE-5686: ----------------------------------- Description: Another interesting issue... {noformat} hive> create table zzzzz(c string) partitioned by (i date,j date); OK Time taken: 0.099 seconds hive> alter table zzzzz add partition (i='2012-01-01', j='foo'); FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10248]: Cannot add partition column j of type string as it cannot be converted to type date hive> alter table zzzzz add partition (i='2012-01-01', j=date 'foo'); OK Time taken: 0.119 seconds {noformat} The fake date is caught in normal queries: {noformat} hive> select * from zzzzz where j == date 'foo'; FAILED: SemanticException Unable to convert date literal string to date value. {noformat} was: Another interesting issue... {noformat} hive> create table zzzzz(c string) partitioned by (i date,j date); OK Time taken: 0.099 seconds hive> alter table zzzzz add partition (i='2012-01-01', j='foo'); FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10248]: Cannot add partition column j of type string as it cannot be converted to type date hive> alter table zzzzz add partition (i='2012-01-01', j=date 'foo'); OK Time taken: 0.119 seconds {noformat} > partition column type validation doesn't quite work for dates > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5686 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5686 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin > Assignee: Vikram Dixit K > > Another interesting issue... > {noformat} > hive> create table zzzzz(c string) partitioned by (i date,j date); > OK > Time taken: 0.099 seconds > hive> alter table zzzzz add partition (i='2012-01-01', j='foo'); > FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10248]: Cannot add partition column j of > type string as it cannot be converted to type date > hive> alter table zzzzz add partition (i='2012-01-01', j=date 'foo'); > OK > Time taken: 0.119 seconds > {noformat} > The fake date is caught in normal queries: > {noformat} > hive> select * from zzzzz where j == date 'foo'; > FAILED: SemanticException Unable to convert date literal string to date value. > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)