xuzq created HIVE-19722:
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Summary: Why the hive archive not support EXTERNAL_TABLE?
Key: HIVE-19722
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19722
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: xuzq
At present, out tables are EXTERNAL_TABLE, and there is a large amount of
metadata information in NameNode, so i need to do archive to reduce the
informations. But hive archive is only support MANAGED_TABLE。
Can someone explain why archive don't support EXTERNAL_TABLE?
Is there any downsides if i changed the code this way?
if (!(tbl.getTableType() == TableType.MANAGED_TABLE || tbl.getTableType() ==
TableType.EXTERNAL_TABLE)) {
throw new HiveException("ARCHIVE can only be performed on managed tables");
}
Thanks.
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