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Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-9633:
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Committed to trunk. Thanks, Mithun!
> Add HCatClient.dropPartitions() overload to skip deletion of
> partition-directories.
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> Key: HIVE-9633
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9633
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: API, HCatalog, Metastore
> Affects Versions: 0.14.0
> Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
> Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
> Fix For: 1.2.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-9633.1.patch
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> {{HCatClient.dropPartitions()}} doesn't provide a way to explicitly skip the
> deletion of partition-directory, as {{HiveMetaStoreClient.dropPartitions()}}
> does.
> This'll come in handy when using HCatClient to drop partitions, but not
> delete data.
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