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REPAIR TABLE
recovers all the partitions in the directory of a table and updates the Hive metastore. When creating a table using PARTITIONED BY
clause, partitions are generated and registered in the Hive metastore. However, if the partitioned table is created from existing data, partitions are not registered automatically in the Hive metastore. User needs to run REPAIR TABLE
to register the partitions. REPAIR TABLE
on a non-existent table or a table without partitions throws an exception. Another way to recover partitions is to use ALTER TABLE RECOVER PARTITIONS
. This command can also be invoked using MSCK REPAIR TABLE
, for Hive compatibility.
If the table is cached, the command clears cached data of the table and all its dependents that refer to it. The cache will be lazily filled when the next time the table or the dependents are accessed.
[MSCK] REPAIR TABLE table_identifier [{ADD|DROP|SYNC} PARTITIONS]
table_identifier
Specifies the name of the table to be repaired. The table name may be optionally qualified with a database name.
Syntax: [ database_name. ] table_name
{ADD|DROP|SYNC} PARTITIONS
Specifies how to recover partitions. If not specified, ADD is the default.
-- create a partitioned table from existing data /tmp/namesAndAges.parquet CREATE TABLE t1 (name STRING, age INT) USING parquet PARTITIONED BY (age) LOCATION "/tmp/namesAndAges.parquet"; -- SELECT * FROM t1 does not return results SELECT * FROM t1; -- run REPAIR TABLE to recovers all the partitions REPAIR TABLE t1; -- SELECT * FROM t1 returns results SELECT * FROM t1; +-------+---+ | name|age| +-------+---+ |Michael| 20| +-------+---+ | Justin| 19| +-------+---+ | Andy| 30| +-------+---+