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[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-9633) Add HCatClient.dropPartitions() overload to skip deletion of partition-directories.

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9633?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14484237#comment-14484237 ] 

Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-9633:
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+1 to intent, marked patch as available so that tests run.

> Add HCatClient.dropPartitions() overload to skip deletion of partition-directories.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-9633
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9633
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: API, HCatalog, Metastore
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.0
>            Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
>            Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
>         Attachments: HIVE-9633.1.patch
>
>
> {{HCatClient.dropPartitions()}} doesn't provide a way to explicitly skip the deletion of partition-directory, as {{HiveMetaStoreClient.dropPartitions()}} does.
> This'll come in handy when using HCatClient to drop partitions, but not delete data.



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