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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-1002: ---------------------------------- I think so - We can mark it a duplicate of 936 > multi-partition inserts > ----------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1002 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1002 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Zheng Shao > > We should allow queries like this into a partitioned table: > {code} > CREATE TABLE (a STRING, b STRING, c STRING) > PARTITIONED BY (ds STRING, ts STRING); > INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE x PARTITION (ds = '2009-12-12') > SELECT a, b, c, ts FROM xxx; > {code} > Basically, allowing users to overwrite multiple partitions at a time. > The partition values specified in PARTITION part (if any) should be a prefix > of the partition keys. > The rest of the partition keys goes to the end of the SELECT expression list. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.