@Deprecated
  @Override
  public boolean drop_partition(final String db_name, final String tbl_name,
                                final List<String> part_vals, final boolean deleteData)
      throws TException {
    return drop_partition_with_environment_context(db_name, tbl_name, part_vals, deleteData,
        null);
  }
Verify if update stats while altering partition(s)
For the following three cases HMS will not update partition stats
1) Table property 'DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS' = True
2) HMS configuration property 'STATS_AUTO_GATHER' = False
3) Is View
standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HMSHandler.java