Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status: Resolved
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Not A Bug
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Affects Version/s: CDH3u2, CDH3u4
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Fix Version/s: CDH3u4
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Component/s: Hadoop Common
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Labels:None
Description
One common use case:
1) Kick off daily sqoop job that retrieves (e.g.) 1 week of data
2) Drop Hive partitions for the previous 1 week
ALTER TABLE foo DROP PARTITION (day = 'yyyy-mm-dd') ;
3) Run Hive job for dynamic partition of the data
This is currently not supported by Oozie coordinator jobs.
There are other variations of this use case, but they all involve performing Hive operations across multiple concrete date/time based partitions.