title: Create Hive external table with partition WITHOUT column name in the path?
body: <p>I need to create an external table for an read only existed folder structure.</p>
  
  <p>The original hive table has partitions like year, month and day. Their files store in path in this way <code>HDFS_PATH/2016/10/04/</code></p>
  
  <p>But when I create an external table in hive, it always store to path like <code>HDFS_PATH/year=2016/month=10/day=04/</code></p>
  
  <p>Although I can change 1 partition location like in this link <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13815179/how-to-update-drop-a-hive-partition">How to Update/Drop a Hive Partition?</a>
  , but I have to set location for each partition combination.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a simpler way to set it once and for all?</p>