"-- Lefty Leverenz, *retired tech writer" * *You will never be out of work as long as hive exists! *
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Lefty Leverenz <[email protected]>wrote: > I've got time on my hands and wiki edit privileges, so I'd be happy to add > the CASCADE option if you tell me what to write. (Or I could do a bit of > research, write something that needs review, never get a review, and hope > for the best.) > > CASCADE is mentioned in the "Drop Partitions" section with the "NO DROP" > option ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-DropPartitions) > but perhaps that should say "NO_DROP" to match the syntax shown in "Alter > Table/Partition Protections" (link in previous message): > > "For tables that are protected by NO DROP CASCADE, you can use the > predicate IGNORE PROTECTION to drop a specified partition or set of > partitions (for example, when splitting a table between two Hadoop > clusters)." > > -- Lefty Leverenz, *retired tech writer* > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jean-Charles Thomas < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I just noted that the CASCADE option is missing in the documentation >> for partition protection.**** >> >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AlterTable%2FPartitionProtections >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> Could somebody add it? **** >> >> I would be of course ready to do this myself if I get the right.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Regards,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Jean-Charles **** >> > > >
