Listing all the partitions from BigQuery partitioned table with require_partition_filter

Question

I am trying to find a way to list the partitions of a table created with require_partition_filter = true however I am not able to find the way yet.

This is table creation script

CREATE TABLE mydataset.partitionedtable_partitiontime
(
x INT64 \
)
PARTITION BY DATE(_PARTITIONTIME)
OPTIONS(
require_partition_filter = true
);

Some test rows

INSERT INTO mydataset.partitionedtable_partitiontime (_PARTITIONTIME, x) SELECT TIMESTAMP("2017-05-01"), 10;
INSERT INTO mydataset.partitionedtable_partitiontime (_PARTITIONTIME, x) SELECT TIMESTAMP("2017-04-01"), 20;
INSERT INTO mydataset.partitionedtable_partitiontime (_PARTITIONTIME, x) SELECT TIMESTAMP("2017-03-01"), 30;

As expected, If a try the following query to get the partitions, I am getting an error because I need to user a filter on top of the partitioning column

SELECT _PARTITIONTIME as pt, FORMAT_TIMESTAMP("%Y%m%d", _PARTITIONTIME) as partition_id
FROM `mydataset.partitionedtable_partitiontime`
GROUP BY _PARTITIONTIME
ORDER BY _PARTITIONTIME

Error

Cannot query over table 'mydataset.partitionedtable_partitiontime' without a filter over column(s) '_PARTITION_LOAD_TIME', '_PARTITIONDATE', '_PARTITIONTIME' that can be used for partition elimination

any ideas how to list the partitions?

EDIT: I know that it is possible to add the filter, but I am looking for a solution like "SHOW PARTITIONS TABLENAME" of Hive to list all the partitions (which are essentially metadata)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here is the way to do it:

SELECT * FROM `mydataset.partitionedtable_partitiontime$__PARTITIONS_SUMMARY__`

The bigquery.jobs.create permission is required.

EDIT: Now is possible to get this information using Standard SQL:

SELECT * FROM `myproject.mydataset.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS`
WHERE table_name = 'partitionedtable'

Answer 2

As mentioned by hlagos , you can get this data by querying the _PARTITIONTIME pseudo column, in case you are using Standard SQL , or the __PARTITIONS_SUMMARY__ meta table for Legacy SQL .

You can take a look on this GCP documentation that contains detailed information about the usage of this partitioned tables metadata.