Right, thanks for verifying that the partition locations are not renamed. Then it is clearly the HIVE-26158, which has been fixed in 7.1.7 SP2, please plan/test and apply the 7.1.7 SP2 or the even newer 7.1.7 SP3 version (recommended) to avoid this in the future. (one should not need to alter the partition locations when table is renamed) Best regards  Miklos ... View more