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Brock Noland commented on HIVE-4341:
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Agreed. Perhaps a configuration setting like "hive.do.not.drop.data" would be a
better approach to providing a safety net.
> Make Hive table external by default
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> Key: HIVE-4341
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4341
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Romit Singhai
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> Make the default table definition in Hive as external to prevent users from
> accidentally deleting data.
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