I read on the VLBD hive paper "Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework" that Partitions could have different schemas : (section 3.1 MetaStore) " Partition - Each partition can have its own columns and SerDe and storage information. This can be used in the future to support schema evolution in a Hive warehouse. "
but the API: http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/docs/r0.5.0/api/ only lists getSchema() for Table, and Partition does not have a separate getSchema(). is the schema evolution feature really there? Thanks Yang
