[HIVE-141] drop table partition behaving oddly - does not create subdirectories

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Prasad Chakka
• Reporter: Hongliang Liu
• Created: 09/Dec/08 07:16
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:08
• Resolved: 09/Feb/09 05:04

Description

for example, I have a table, which has two partitions:
tmp_table_name/dt=2008-11-01
tmp_table_name/dt=2008-11-02

When we use hive metastore to drop the first partition (as root), I expect the data file will be moved to user/root/.Trash/081103xxxx/tmp_table_name/dt=2008-11-01 by default. However, directory tmp_table_name was not created, the data was moved to user/root/.Trash/081103xxxx/dt=2008-11-01, which makes data recovery a very difficult task.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HADOOP-4970 Use the full path when move files to .Trash/Current