[IMPALA-1654] Impala needs to support all operators in drop partitions (<, >, <>, !=, <=, >=) like hive does

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.1
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.8.0
• Component/s: Catalog
• Labels: catalog-server doc documentation ramp-up
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Assignee: John Russell
• Reporter: Mala Chikka Kempanna
• Created: 12/Jan/15 19:40
• Updated: 05/Jul/17 22:29
• Resolved: 15/Nov/16 05:29

Description

In hive we can do this
ALTER TABLE foo DROP PARTITION(ds < 'date')

And also have drop partitions in a range with all these operators.
<, >, <>, !=, <=, >=

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2908

We should have the same feature in impala too.

Issue Links

• breaks: IMPALA-5615 Compute Incremental stats is broken for general partition expressions