SHOW PARTITIONS

Description

This statement is used to display partition information for tables in Internal catalog or Hive Catalog

grammar:

  SHOW [TEMPORARY] PARTITIONS FROM [db_name.]table_name [WHERE] [ORDER BY] [LIMIT];

illustrate:

When used in Internal catalog:

1. Support the filtering of PartitionId, PartitionName, State, Buckets, ReplicationNum, LastConsistencyCheckTime and other columns
2. TEMPORARY specifies to list temporary partitions

when used in Hive Catalog: Will return all partitions' name. Support multilevel partition table

Examples

1. Display all non-temporary partition information of the specified table under the specified db

  SHOW PARTITIONS FROM example_db.table_name;

2. Display all temporary partition information of the specified table under the specified db

   SHOW TEMPORARY PARTITIONS FROM example_db.table_name;

3. Display the information of the specified non-temporary partition of the specified table under the specified db

    SHOW PARTITIONS FROM example_db.table_name WHERE PartitionName = "p1";

4. Display the latest non-temporary partition information of the specified table under the specified db

   SHOW PARTITIONS FROM example_db.table_name ORDER BY PartitionId DESC LIMIT 1;

Keywords

SHOW, PARTITIONS

Best Practice