sankarh 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_r268480328
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File path:
standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java
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@@ -192,12 +197,12 @@ public void alterTable(RawStore msdb, Warehouse wh,
String catName, String dbnam
// 2) the table is not an external table, and
// 3) the user didn't change the default location (or new location is
empty), and
// 4) the table was not initially created with a specified location
- if (rename
- && !oldt.getTableType().equals(TableType.VIRTUAL_VIEW.toString())
- && (oldt.getSd().getLocation().compareTo(newt.getSd().getLocation())
== 0
- || StringUtils.isEmpty(newt.getSd().getLocation()))
- && !MetaStoreUtils.isExternalTable(oldt)) {
- Database olddb = msdb.getDatabase(catName, dbname);
+ if (replDataLocationChanged
+ || (rename
Review comment:
It cannot be same because the behaviour is different. If location is set for
normal flow, we shouldn't update for partitions. Also, it is risky to modify
any of current behaviour. It is not in scope of this ticket.
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