@Override
  public int getNumPartitionsByFilter(String catName, String dbName, String tableName, String filter)
      throws TException {
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table table = getTempTable(dbName, tableName);
    if (table == null) {
      return super.getNumPartitionsByFilter(catName, dbName, tableName, filter);
    }
    return getPartitionedTempTable(table).getNumPartitionsByFilter(generateJDOFilter(table, filter));
  }
@param partialPvals partition values, can be partial.  This really means that missing values
                   are represented by empty str.
@param maxParts maximum number of partitions to fetch, or -1 for all
ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.java