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_r268480382
 
 

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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:
   Yes. it is already like that.

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