-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more -- contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with -- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. -- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 -- (the "License") you may not use this file except in compliance with -- the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at -- -- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -- -- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -- limitations under the License. create table if not exists nzhang_part14 (key string) partitioned by (value string); describe extended nzhang_part14; set hive.exec.dynamic.partition=true; set hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict; explain insert overwrite table nzhang_part14 partition(value) select key, value from ( select 'k1' as key, cast(null as string) as value from src limit 2 union all select 'k2' as key, '' as value from src limit 2 union all select 'k3' as key, ' ' as value from src limit 2 ) T; insert overwrite table nzhang_part14 partition(value) select key, value from ( select 'k1' as key, cast(null as string) as value from src limit 2 union all select 'k2' as key, '' as value from src limit 2 union all select 'k3' as key, ' ' as value from src limit 2 ) T; show partitions nzhang_part14; select * from nzhang_part14 where value <> 'a' order by key, value;