You can also just create all your partitions ahead of time. They will not do any harm if empty. (unless you have an older version and hit this... http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1007 )
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Mark Grover <grover.markgro...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Sadananda, > Sorry to hear that. > > It got committed, don't worry about the "ABORTED". Here is the commit on > the trunk: > > https://github.com/apache/hive/commit/523f47c3b6e7cb7b6b7b7801c66406e116af6dbc > > However, there is no Apache Hive release with that patch in it. > > You have two options: > 1. Download the patch, rebuild hive and use it > 2. Find a hacky way to recover your partitions when they are empty and > populate them later. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. > > Mark > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Sadananda Hegde <saduhe...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks Mark, >> >> Recover partition feature will satisfy my needs; but MSCK Repair >> Partition < tablename> option is not working for me. It does not give any >> error; but does not add any partitions either. It looks like it adds >> partitions only when the sub-folder is empty; but not >> when the sub-folder has the data files. I see a fix to this issue here. >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3231?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel >> >> But probably it's not commited yet, since the final result says >> 'ABORTED". >> >> Thanks, >> Sadu >> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Mark Grover < >> grover.markgro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Sadananda, >>> See if this helps: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Recoverpartitions >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Sadananda Hegde <saduhe...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
