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Why doesn't hive bucketing work at partition level?

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Any hive bucketing experts here?

I have this scenario where my each of my individual partitions needs to be bucketed at a different level. I have tried the following scenarios but it doesn't work.

  1. Created a bucketed table and created a partition (date_id='2022-10-22') and set the bucketing number to 64.

Result: No of files created in the target partition is equivalent to no of buckets in the source table (6). Expected file count is 64.

  1. Created a non bucketed table and created a partition (date_id='2022-10-22') and set the bucketing number to 64. Result: No of files created the target is not related to source files count either

Please share your thoughts.

Thanks

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Super Collaborator

Could you kindly provide the DDL and a sample dataset to facilitate a more in-depth explanation?