CREATE TABLE repairtable(col STRING) PARTITIONED BY (p1 STRING, p2 STRING); -- EXCLUDE_HADOOP_MAJOR_VERSIONS(0.20, 0.23) -- When you invoke the mkdir command using versions of Hadoop up to and including 0.23, -- they behave as if you had specified the -p option, -- *but* they don't actually support the -p option. -- Support for the -p option first appeared in 1.0 and 2.0, -- but they maintain backward compatibility with older versions, -- so they let you include -p, but if you don't they still act like you did. -- HADOOP-8551 breaks backward compatibility with 0.23 and older versions by -- requiring you to explicitly specify -p if you require that behavior. MSCK TABLE repairtable; dfs -mkdir -p ../build/ql/test/data/warehouse/repairtable/p1=a/p2=a; dfs -mkdir -p ../build/ql/test/data/warehouse/repairtable/p1=b/p2=a; MSCK TABLE repairtable; MSCK REPAIR TABLE repairtable; MSCK TABLE repairtable;