CREATE TABLE exchange_part_test1 (f1 string) PARTITIONED BY (ds STRING); CREATE TABLE exchange_part_test2 (f1 string, f2 string) PARTITIONED BY (ds STRING); SHOW PARTITIONS exchange_part_test1; SHOW PARTITIONS exchange_part_test2; ALTER TABLE exchange_part_test1 ADD PARTITION (ds='2013-04-05'); SHOW PARTITIONS exchange_part_test1; SHOW PARTITIONS exchange_part_test2; -- exchange_part_test1 and exchange_part_test2 do not have the same scheme and thus they fail ALTER TABLE exchange_part_test1 EXCHANGE PARTITION (ds='2013-04-05') WITH TABLE exchange_part_test2;