I have been trying to run this piece of code to drop current day's partition from hive a table and for some reason it does not drop the partition from the hive table. Not sure what's worng.
Table Name : prod_db.products
desc:
+----------------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+--+
| col_name | data_type | comment |
+----------------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+--+
| name | string | |
| cost | double | |
| load_date | string | |
| | NULL | NULL |
| # Partition Information | NULL | NULL |
| # col_name | data_type | comment |
| | NULL | NULL |
| load_date | string | |
+----------------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+--+
## I am using the following code
SET hivevar:current_date=current_date();
ALTER TABLE prod_db.products DROP PARTITION(load_date='${current_date}');
Before and After picture of partitions:
+-----------------------+--+
| partition |
+-----------------------+--+
| load_date=2022-04-07 |
| load_date=2022-04-11 |
| load_date=2022-04-18 |
| load_date=2022-04-25 |
+-----------------------+--+
It runs without any error but doesn't work but won't drop the partition. Table is internal/managed. I tried different ways mentioned on stack but it is just not working for me. Help.