Hive 1.1.0 Alter table partition type from int to string

Question

I have a table which has a partition of type int but which I want to convert to string. However, I can\'t figure out how to do this.

The table description is:

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Answer 1

A bit of digging revealed that there was a hive JIRA to have a command exactly for updating partition column data type (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3672)

alter table {table_name} partition column ({column_name} {column_type});

According to JIRA the command was implemented, but it's apparent that it was never documented on Hive Wiki.

I used it on my Hive 0.14 system and it worked as expected.