Looks like a bug. I'll fix that.
2013/8/15 Jan Dolinár <dolik....@gmail.com>: > Hi everyone, > > Consider following DDL: > > CREATE TABLE partition_test > (a INT) > PARTITIONED BY (b INT); > > ALTER TABLE partition_test ADD > PARTITION (b=1) location '/tmp/test1' > PARTITION (b=2) location '/tmp/test2'; > > Now lets have a look what was created: > > DESCRIBE EXTENDED partition_test PARTITION (b=1); > DESCRIBE EXTENDED partition_test PARTITION (b=2); > > Both describe statements yield "location:hdfs://example.com:9000/tmp/test1", > which is obviously incorrect. > > This behavior *is* mentioned on wiki[1], but the article speaks specifically > of hive 0.7. I just tested this in versions 0.7.1 and 0.10.0, and they both > exhibit this bug. I wasn't even able to find a JIRA for this issue, was I > looking wrong? Or should a new one be created? > > Best regards, > Jan Dolinar > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AddPartitions
