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Sergey Shelukhin updated HIVE-5686:
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Attachment: HIVE-5686.03.patch
> partition column type validation doesn't quite work for dates
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> Key: HIVE-5686
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5686
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
> Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
> Attachments: HIVE-5686.01.patch, HIVE-5686.02.patch,
> HIVE-5686.03.patch, HIVE-5686.03.patch, HIVE-5686.03.patch, HIVE-5686.patch
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> 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}
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