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Zheng Shao updated HIVE-957:
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    Summary: Partition Metadata and Table Metadata  (was: Partiition Metadata 
and Table Metadata)

> Partition Metadata and Table Metadata
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>                 Key: HIVE-957
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-957
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: He Yongqiang
>         Attachments: hive-957-2009-11-30.patch
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> Right now, we choose to use partition lever metadata. All metadata (column 
> names, column types, fileformat, serde class, serde properties) right now are 
> from partition level metadata. But hive does not support a method now to 
> alter all existing partitions' metadata, so users mostly choose to alter 
> table metadata, and think hive will use the new  table level metadata. 
> One approach is that we may need to provide a way to let user alter all 
> partitions' metadata with one simple command. Right now a short term solution 
> is to only get fileformat, serde class metadata from paritition level 
> metadata, and use all other metadata from table.
> any comments?

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