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Rizwan Mian commented on HIVE-874:
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Apparently, it cannot.
> add partitions found during metastore check
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> Key: HIVE-874
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-874
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.5.0, 0.6.0
> Reporter: Prasad Chakka
> Assignee: Cyrus Katrak
> Fix For: 0.5.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-874.patch
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> 'msck' just reports the list of partition directories that exist but do not
> have corresponding metadata. This can happen if a process outside of hive is
> populating the directories. Hive should support an option to 'msck' that
> would also add default metadata for these partitions.
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