[KUDU-1750] Drop range partition is not working as expected

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Assignee: Dan Burkert
• Reporter: Dimitris Tsirogiannis
• Created: 17/Nov/16 23:39
• Updated: 26/Jan/17 02:23
• Resolved: 21/Nov/16 22:12

Description

There are several cases wrt drop range partitions that don't seem to work as expected.
1. Drop matches only the lower bound (may be correct but is confusing to users).

• alter table foo add range partition 10 < values <= 20;
• alter table foo drop range partition 10 < values < 30; <--- this works and deletes partition (10, 20] but I'd expect an error.
  2.
• alter table foo add range partition values < 10;
• alter table foo add range partition 20 < values <= 30;
• alter table foo drop range partition values < 10000; <--- this drops the range partition (,10).

This is Impala syntax that will be introduced in IMPALA-2890 (not currently committed).