That means one partition at a time, not the number of keys in the partition. And in the 0.2 (just released), the one at a time restriction is removed. So you can partition data by client id and date.
Alan. On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Stan Rosenberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can you explain what you mean by secondary output partitioning? HCatalog >> supports the same partitioning that Hive does. >> > > "Currently HCatStorer only supports writing to one partition." > > We need to partition our data by client id, then by date, hence two-level > partitioning.
