Kevin Wilfong created HIVE-3134: ----------------------------------- Summary: Drop table/index/database can result in orphaned locations Key: HIVE-3134 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3134 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Kevin Wilfong
Today when a managed table has a partition with a location which is not a subdirectory of the table's location, when the table is dropped the partition's data is not deleted from HDFS, resulting in an orphaned directory (the data exists but nothing points to it). The same applies to dropping a database with cascade and a table has a location outside the database. I think it is safe to assume managed tables/partitions own the directories they point to, so we should clean these up. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira