[jira] [Created] (HIVE-6897) Allow overwrite/append to external Hive table (with partitions) via HCatStorer

["Dip Kharod (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Dip Kharod created HIVE-6897:
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             Summary: Allow overwrite/append to external Hive table (with partitions) via HCatStorer
                 Key: HIVE-6897
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6897
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: HCatalog, HiveServer2
    Affects Versions: 0.12.0
            Reporter: Dip Kharod


I'm using HCatStorer to write to external Hive table with partition from Pig and have the following different use cases:
1) Need to overwrite (aka, refresh) data into table: Currently I end up doing this outside (drop partition and delete HDFS folder) of Pig which is very painful and error-prone
2) Need to append (aka, add new file) data to the Hive external table/partition: Again, I end up doing this outside of Pig by copying file in appropriate folder
It would be very productive for the developers to have both options in HCatStorer.



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