Kevin Wilfong created HIVE-3134:
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             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.

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