[HIVE-7164] Support non-string partition types in HCatalog

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: HCatalog
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bharath Vissapragada
• Created: 02/Jun/14 07:35
• Updated: 26/Feb/15 02:44
• Resolved: 28/Nov/14 18:55

Description

Currently querying hive tables with non-string partition columns using HCat gives us the following error.

Error: Filtering is supported only on partition keys of type string

Related discussion here : https://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg18011.html

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-2702 Enhance listPartitionsByFilter to add support for integral types both for equality and non-equality
• is related to: HIVE-5545 HCatRecord getInteger method returns String when used on Partition columns of type INT
• supercedes: HCATALOG-23 hcat client does not support partition keys other than string, when creating tables