SET hive.metastore.pre.event.listeners=org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.PartitionNameWhitelistPreEventListener; SET hive.metastore.partition.name.whitelist.pattern=[A-Za-z]*; set hive.exec.dynamic.partition=true; set hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict; create table source_table like srcpart; create table dest_table like srcpart; load data local inpath '../data/files/srcbucket20.txt' INTO TABLE source_table partition(ds='2008-04-08', hr=11); insert overwrite table dest_table partition (ds, hr) select key, value, hr from source_table where ds='2008-04-08';