Don't fetch information on Partitions from HDFS instead of MetaStore
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Key: HIVE-126
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-126
Project: Hadoop Hive
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Metastore
Affects Versions: 0.19.0
Reporter: Johan Oskarsson
Assignee: Johan Oskarsson
Fix For: 0.19.0
When investigating HIVE-91 an issue came up where the information on what
partitions a table contains is loaded by listing the directories in the table
directory on HDFS. This is then used to overrule what is in the MetaStore if
any difference is found.
* Would it not be preferable if MetaStore is the one authority on what the
table contains?
* It will also be a major hassle (or impossible?) to retrieve this information
from HDFS with external tables that have non standard partition names
(HIVE-91), such as: table/2008/01/08/portugal where "2008/01/08" is one
partition value and "portugal" is another.
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