[HIVE-3261] alter the number of buckets for a non-empty partitioned table should not be allowed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Labels: bucketing
• Assignee: Namit Jain
• Reporter: Namit Jain
• Created: 16/Jul/12 09:43
• Updated: 10/Jan/13 19:54
• Resolved: 23/Jul/12 21:58

Description

This is dangerous since the code uses the table metadata everywhere to get the number of buckets

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-3283 bucket information should be used from the partition instead of the table