Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-29 Thread Aniket Mokashi
We are using non-string partition columns in production as well. Thanks, Aniket On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Philip Tromans philip.j.trom...@gmail.comwrote: We're using non-string partition columns in production. I think non string partition columns are a good thing to have - it allows

Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-29 Thread Namit Jain
Mokashi aniket...@gmail.com wrote: We are using non-string partition columns in production as well. Thanks, Aniket On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Philip Tromans philip.j.trom...@gmail.comwrote: We're using non-string partition columns in production. I think non string partition columns

Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-29 Thread Ashutosh Chauhan
Mokashi aniket...@gmail.com wrote: We are using non-string partition columns in production as well. Thanks, Aniket On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Philip Tromans philip.j.trom...@gmail.comwrote: We're using non-string partition columns in production. I think non string

Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-26 Thread Philip Tromans
We're using non-string partition columns in production. I think non string partition columns are a good thing to have - it allows you to do all sorts of date range calculations etc. AFAIK, MySQL's partition columns can be of any type. Phil. On May 26, 2012 7:55 AM, Namit Jain nj...@fb.com wrote

Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-25 Thread Namit Jain
Should we disallow non-string partition columns completely ? Does anyone depend on that ? On 5/24/12 6:49 PM, Namit Jain nj...@fb.com wrote: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revisionrevision=1308427 The patch above broke drop partitions if the partition happens to be non-string. This is due

Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-25 Thread Ashutosh Chauhan
Some discussion for this has happened on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2702 Is the underlying problem same as the one which I described on that jira ? Thanks, Ashutosh On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Namit Jain nj...@fb.com wrote: Should we disallow non-string partition columns

Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-25 Thread Namit Jain
Yes, but the meta-question is: Is anyone dependent on non-string partition columns ? Should we drop the support for non-string partition columns ? Thanks, -namit On 5/24/12 11:21 PM, Ashutosh Chauhan hashut...@apache.org wrote: Some discussion for this has happened on https

Re: non-string partition columns

2012-05-25 Thread Namit Jain
Should I go ahead and file a jira to disallow non-string partition columns ? Or, someone depends on that functionality. On 5/25/12 10:01 AM, Namit Jain nj...@fb.com wrote: Yes, but the meta-question is: Is anyone dependent on non-string partition columns ? Should we drop the support for non

non-string partition columns

2012-05-24 Thread Namit Jain
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revisionrevision=1308427 The patch above broke drop partitions if the partition happens to be non-string. This is due to a JDO issue with non-string columns. Is anyone using non-string partition columns ? Should be force the partition columns to be only of type