[IMPALA-1683] Allow REFRESH on a single partition

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.1
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.7.0
• Component/s: Catalog
• Labels: ramp-up
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Bikramjeet Vig
• Reporter: Henry Robinson
• Created: 22/Jan/15 19:31
• Updated: 04/Jan/17 23:58
• Resolved: 14/Sep/16 20:17

Description

Although we'd like to diminish REFRESH in the future, in the short term it would be helpful for some use cases to allow it to work only on a single partition (e.g. after an ingest step).