SET hive.metastore.partition.name.whitelist.pattern=[\\x20-\\x7E&&[^,]]* ; -- This pattern matches all printable ASCII characters (disallow unicode) and disallows commas CREATE TABLE part_whitelist_test (key STRING, value STRING) PARTITIONED BY (ds STRING); SHOW PARTITIONS part_whitelist_test; ALTER TABLE part_whitelist_test ADD PARTITION (ds='1'); ALTER TABLE part_whitelist_test PARTITION (ds='1') rename to partition (ds='1,2,3');