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Comment: dynamic partitions broken for external tables from HCatalog 0.5 until Hive 0.12

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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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