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Shuaishuai Nie commented on HIVE-5032: -------------------------------------- Yes [~leftylev], I think documentation is not necessary > Enable hive creating external table at the root directory of DFS > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5032 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5032 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Shuaishuai Nie > Assignee: Shuaishuai Nie > Attachments: HIVE-5032.1.patch, HIVE-5032.2.patch, HIVE-5032.3.patch > > > Creating external table using HIVE with location point to the root directory > of DFS will fail because the function > HiveFileFormatUtils#doGetPartitionDescFromPath treat authority of the path > the same as folder and cannot find a match in the "pathToPartitionInfo" table > when doing prefix match. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)