title: Can i have a hive external table partition search recursively
body: <p>So I have a table with external partitions by day. I'm creating partitions as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ALTER TABLE &lt;table&gt; ADD PARTITION(year = 2012, month = 5, day = 6) LOCATION 'hdfs://&lt;namenode&gt;/&lt;path&gt;/protos/2012/05/06';
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  <p>only the sequence files are actually in a number of directories under that location. Can I make this work with some wildcards in that path or a switch somewhere?</p>