THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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It is also important to note that all partitions created during a single run are part of one transaction; therefore if any part of the process fails, none of the partitions will be added to the table.
External Tables
Starting in HCatalog 0.5, dynamic partitioning on external tables was broken (HCATALOG-500). This issue was fixed in Hive 0.12.0 (HIVE-5011).
Hive Dynamic Partitions
Information about Hive dynamic partitions is available here:
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