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Gang Tim Liu commented on HIVE-446:
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"External table" is used in the context where data is not fully managed. If it
ends up that there is a need to remove data behind external table, a question
can be asked "why do you define it as external table?".
Saying that, possibly the proposed syntax and semantics are not consistent to
"external table" use case.
thanks
> Implement TRUNCATE
> ------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-446
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-446
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Query Processor
> Reporter: Prasad Chakka
> Assignee: Navis
> Fix For: 0.11.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-446.D7371.1.patch, HIVE-446.D7371.2.patch,
> HIVE-446.D7371.3.patch, HIVE-446.D7371.4.patch
>
>
> truncate the data but leave the table and metadata intact.
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