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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-667:
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I think there are issues in keeping the info (size etc.) in metastore - the 
same info is in 2 places
What happens if someone updates the underlying hadoop file - I vaguely remember 
having a discussion
with Prasad about the same

> Provide hive ql to check table/partition status, including size, creation and 
> access timestamp
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-667
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-667
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Hao Liu
>            Assignee: He Yongqiang
>         Attachments: hive-667-2009-07-24.patch, hive-667-2009-07-25-3.patch, 
> hive-667-2009-07-25.patch, indented.txt, localtest-2009-07-24.txt
>
>
> Those information will be helpful both for data management tasks, and users 
> who send adhoc queries against big data set in the cluster. . 

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