[HIVE-9083] New metastore API to support to purge partition-data directly in dropPartitions().

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
• Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
• Created: 11/Dec/14 23:27
• Updated: 18/May/15 19:53
• Resolved: 02/Mar/15 19:14

Description

HIVE-7100 adds the option to purge table-data when dropping a table (from Hive CLI.)

This patch adds HiveMetaStoreClient APIs to support the same for dropPartitions().

(I'll add a follow-up to support a command-line option for the same.)

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: HIVE-9086 Add language support to PURGE data while dropping partitions.
• relates to: HIVE-7100 Users of hive should be able to specify skipTrash when dropping tables.