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Johan Oskarsson commented on HIVE-91:
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Do you mean something along the lines of:
ALTER TABLE table_name ADD PARTITIONS (partition_col = '2008/12/04',
another='spain') location ('/wherever/2008/12/04/spain')
That would certainly work for our case and looks like a cleaner solution.
> Allow external tables with different partition directory structure
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> Key: HIVE-91
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-91
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore
> Reporter: Johan Oskarsson
> Assignee: Johan Oskarsson
> Priority: Minor
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> A lot of users have datasets in a directory structures similar to this in
> hdfs: /dataset/yyyy/MM/dd/<one or more files>
> Instead of loading these into Hive the normal way it would be useful to
> create an external table with the /dataset location and then one partition
> per yyyy/mm/dd. This would require the partition "naming to
> directory"-function to be made more flexible.
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