Is this functionality handled by ALTER TABLE [name] RECOVER PARTITIONS? Take a look at this presentation for context: http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-office-hours-amazon-elastic-mapreduce
Best of luck, Tim On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Jasper Knulst <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a partitioned external table on Hive 0.7. New subfolders are > regularly added to the base table HDFS folder. > I now have to perform this scan myself and let an external tool create new > partitions by generating and firing ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION commands. > > Is there an easier way to have hive scan the base table folder to see if > there are any new partitions around? Something like REBUILD PARTITIONS > perhaps?? > > > > > Couldn't find anything similar on the Hive/LanguageManual/DDL > > -- > Kind Regards > > > > Jasper >
