[HIVE-1499] allow index partitioning to be only a subset of base table partitioning

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: Indexing
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: John Sichi
• Created: 31/Jul/10 00:36
• Updated: 21/Apr/11 00:00

Description

This includes providing control over what to do when fine-grained partitions are dropped:

• do nothing (but support an ALTER INDEX DROP PARTITION to allow the user to clean up manually)
• cascade to drop the entire index partition
• wait for the last fine-grained partition to go away and then auto-drop

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-417 Implement Indexing in Hive