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Adam Kramer updated HIVE-2826:
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Description:
The syntax, ALTER TABLE x ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION, puts the "IF NOT EXISTS" before the subject of the statement. Not only is this weird grammar, but it is also inconsistent with other uses of "IF NOT EXISTS", for example, "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS" and "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS".
It would be a minor improvement to align the syntaxes.
was:
Support for ALTER TABLE x ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION was added in HIVE-1106. The same semantics should be supported for ALTER VIEW.
WAS:
When trying to add a partition, if the partition already exists, we shouldn't necessarily cause the job to fail...just like we have CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS and DROP TABLE IF EXISTS, we should have ALTER TABLE foo ADD PARTITION IF NOT EXISTS (ds=whatever).
Ditto for ALTER VIEW.
Summary: ALTER VIEW ADD (IF NOT EXISTS) PARTITION syntax is bad. (was: ALTER VIEW ADD PARTITION needs IF NOT EXISTS.)
ALTER VIEW ADD (IF NOT EXISTS) PARTITION syntax is bad.
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Key: HIVE-2826
URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2826Project: Hive
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Adam Kramer
The syntax, ALTER TABLE x ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION, puts the "IF NOT EXISTS" before the subject of the statement. Not only is this weird grammar, but it is also inconsistent with other uses of "IF NOT EXISTS", for example, "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS" and "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS".
It would be a minor improvement to align the syntaxes.
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