Sanbox HDP2.3 – Add Partition Fails

Out of the box, the new Sandbox HDP 2.3 VM won’t add partitions to an external table, whereas HDP 2.2 is fine. The following code fails on 2.3 at adding a partition:

create external table if not exists Test01.Test02(sDate date, id int, sText string)
partitioned by(LogDay date)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘ ‘;

alter table Test01.Test02
partition(LogDay=’2008-10-29’) location ‘/user/hue/Logs/2008-10-29’;

Error occurred executing hive query: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line 2:31 cannot recognize input near ‘location’ ”/user/hue/Logs/2008-10-29” ‘<EOF>’ in alter table partition statement suffix