maheshk114 commented on a change in pull request #578: HIVE-21471: Replicating
conversion of managed to external table leaks HDFS files at target.
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/578#discussion_r268475390
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File path:
standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java
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@@ -209,7 +214,13 @@ public void alterTable(RawStore msdb, Warehouse wh,
String catName, String dbnam
boolean tableInSpecifiedLoc = !oldtRelativePath.equalsIgnoreCase(name)
&& !oldtRelativePath.equalsIgnoreCase(name + Path.SEPARATOR);
- if (!tableInSpecifiedLoc) {
+ if (replDataLocationChanged) {
+ // If data location is changed in replication flow, then new path
was already set in
+ // the newt. Also, it is as good as the data is moved and set
dataWasMoved=true so that
+ // location in partitions are also updated accordingly.
+ destPath = new Path(newt.getSd().getLocation());
Review comment:
if for a partition the location is not within the table location and that
table is altered to a external table ..the partition location need not be
changed to base path at target ?
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