On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ryan LeCompte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does the latest version of Hive allow us to add a new partition column to > an existing table with data? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > Ryan, No direct way to do this. One option is to import the data into a new table. Possibly you can use the hive Multi-Table-Insert http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/GettingStarted#MULTITABLE_INSERT With this you can select data from the old tables directly into new tables. Regards, Edward
