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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-1602: ---------------------------------- For the user to do this today, he will have to duplicate the column. I think we will end up doing the same internally, but if I understand right, the idea is to make it transparent to the user. > List Partitioning > ----------------- > > Key: HIVE-1602 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1602 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 0.7.0 > Reporter: Ning Zhang > > Dynamic partition inserts create partitions bases on the dynamic partition > column values. Currently it creates one partition for each distinct DP column > value. This could result in skews in the created dynamic partitions in that > some partitions are large but there could be large number of small partitions > as well. This results in burdens in HDFS as well as metastore. A list > partitioning scheme that aggregate a number of small partitions into one big > one is more preferable for skewed partitions. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.