What version of HCatalog are you using? How do you know it is scanning all the partitions, does it say so in the logs, or are you getting all the records back?
And yes, HCat is supposed to do partition pruning so that it only scans the required partitions. Alan. On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Rajesh Balamohan wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a hcatalog table "partitioned by (d string)". > > I have couple of days worth of data and when i run "show partitions" it > provides the correct daa. > > d=20111215 > d=20111216 > d=20111217 > d=20111218 > d=20111219 > d=20111220 > d=20111221 > d=20111222 > d=20111223 > d=20111224 > d=20111225 > d=20120415 > > However, when I run PIG with "filter a by d == '20120415'", it ends up > scanning all data. > > Is this a known bug/enhancement in HCatalog?. Ideally, shouldn't it scan only > the d=20120415 directory? > > Any pointers would be of great help. > > > -- > ~Rajesh.B
