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package org.apache.impala.catalog;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.impala.analysis.LiteralExpr;
import org.apache.impala.planner.HdfsPartitionPruner;
/**
* A specification of a partition that is part of a table, sufficient
* for pruning by {@link HdfsPartitionPruner}.
*
* This interface only exposes the partition ID and values, so it can
* be implemented by only fetching partition names and not the complete
* partition metadata.
*/
public interface PrunablePartition {
/**
* Returns the identifier of this partition, suitable for later passing
* to {@link FeFsTable#loadPartitions(java.util.Collection)}
*/
public long getId();
/**
* Returns the values associated with this partition
*/
List<LiteralExpr> getPartitionValues();
}