[HIVE-4273] HCatClient::dropPartition() doesn't fail for non-existent partitions.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: HCatalog
• Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
• Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
• Created: 01/Apr/13 23:37
• Updated: 01/Apr/13 23:37

Description

In HCatalog 0.4/0.5, if HCatClient::dropPartition() is called with a partition-spec that doesn't select any partitions, then it should throw an exception, if(f) ifExists == false. But it doesn't.

At the moment, HCatClientHMSImplementation::dropPartition() queries for all partitions and attempts to drop them iteratively. It doesn't check for an empty partition-list.

I'll fix this in a patch shortly.