[HIVE-1106] Support "Alter table t add if not exists partition ..."

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

HIVE-1106. Support ALTER TABLE t ADD IF NOT EXIST PARTITION. (Paul Yang via zshao)

• Assignee: Paul Yang
• Reporter: Zheng Shao
• Created: 27/Jan/10 01:09
• Updated: 09/Apr/12 20:44
• Resolved: 28/Jan/10 05:14

Description

It will be useful to add such a command so that users don't see an error when adding an existing partition.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-2938 ALTER TABLE ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION is not atomic