"show table extended like table partition(xxx) " will show the result of the whole table if the partition does not exist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1072 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1072 Project: Hadoop Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Zheng Shao Assignee: He Yongqiang See the following example, we should output an error for the second command. {code} hive> show table extended like member_count; OK tableName:member_count owner:null location:/user/hive/member_count inputformat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat outputformat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveSequenceFileOutputFormat columns:struct columns { string count} partitioned:true partitionColumns:struct partition_columns { string ds} totalNumberFiles:233933 totalFileSize:32802665 maxFileSize:257 minFileSize:140 lastAccessTime:1264017438860 lastUpdateTime:1263949909703 Time taken: 125.104 seconds hive> show table extended like member_count partition(ds = '2009-10-11'); OK tableName:member_count owner:null location:/user/hive/member_count inputformat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat outputformat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveSequenceFileOutputFormat columns:struct columns { string count} partitioned:true partitionColumns:struct partition_columns { string ds} totalNumberFiles:233933 totalFileSize:32802665 maxFileSize:257 minFileSize:140 lastAccessTime:1264017438860 lastUpdateTime:1263949909703 Time taken: 24.618 seconds hive> show table extended like member_count partition(ds = '2009-12-11'); OK tableName:member_count owner:null location:/user/hive/member_count inputformat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat outputformat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveSequenceFileOutputFormat columns:struct columns { string count} partitioned:true partitionColumns:struct partition_columns { string ds} totalNumberFiles:3495 totalFileSize:489417 maxFileSize:257 minFileSize:140 lastAccessTime:1262676533852 lastUpdateTime:1263949909703 Time taken: 0.549 seconds {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.