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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-7100:
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If I understand correctly, the patch provides a metastore client API that can
take a skipTrash option when droppring a table/partition. While this doesn't
change SQL syntax, it seems creating a backdoor to allow a client to drop table
with skipTrash on/off regardless of the admin option, thus defeating the
purpose of an admin option. This doesn't seem to be a config driven, but rather
a security concern.
If your concern was being unable to read the the global
hive.warehouse.data.skipTrash option value from client code, this seems to be a
bug that can be fixed. But the patch seems to abandon whatever HIVE-6469
provides and provide the functionality thru a client API.
Did I miss anything?
> Users of hive should be able to specify skipTrash when dropping tables.
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> Key: HIVE-7100
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7100
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.13.0
> Reporter: Ravi Prakash
> Assignee: Jayesh
> Attachments: HIVE-7100.patch
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> Users of our clusters are often running up against their quota limits because
> of Hive tables. When they drop tables, they have to then manually delete the
> files from HDFS using skipTrash. This is cumbersome and unnecessary. We
> should enable users to skipTrash directly when dropping tables.
> We should also be able to provide this functionality without polluting SQL
> syntax.
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