Dynamic Partitioning?

[Chris Goffinet]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone has thought about the possibility of having  
dynamic partitioning in Hive? Right now you typically use LOAD DATA or  
ALTER TABLE to add new partitions. It would be great for applications  
like Scribe that can load data into HDFS, could just place the data  
into the correct folder structure for your partitions on HDFS. Has  
anyone investigated this? What is everyone else doing in regards to  
things like this? It seems a little error prone to have a cron job run  
everyday adding new partitions. It might not even be possible to do  
dynamic partitioning since its meta data read. But I'd love to hear  
thoughts?

-Chris