Hello, My hive table is partitioned by year, month and day. I have defined it as external table. The M/R job correctly loads the files into the daily subfolders. The hdfs files will be loaded to <hivetable>/year=yyyy/month=mm/day=dd/ folders by the scheduled M/R jobs. The M/R job has some business logic in determining the values for year, month and day; so one run might create / load files into multiple sub -folders (multiple days). I am able to query the tables after adding partitions using ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION statement. But how do I automate the partition creation step? Basically this script needs to identify the subfolders created by the M/R job and create corresponding ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION statements.
For example, say the M/R job loads files into the following 3 sub-folders /user/hive/warehouse/sales/year=2013/month=1/day=21 /user/hive/warehouse/sales/year=2013/month=1/day=22 /user/hive/warehouse/sales/year=2013/month=1/day=23 Then it should create 3 alter table statements ALTER TABLE sales ADD PARTITION (year=2013, month=1, day=21); ALTER TABLE sales ADD PARTITION (year=2013, month=1, day=22); ALTER TABLE sales ADD PARTITION (year=2013, month=1, day=23); I thought of changing M/R jobs to load all files into same folder, then first load the files into non-partitioned table and then to load the partitioned table from non-partitioned table (using dynamic partition); but would prefer to avoid that extra step if possible (esp. since data is already in the correct sub-folders). Any help would greately be appreciated. Regards, Sadu
