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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-7100:
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[~jhsenjaliya] This seems just getting more and more complicated. I'd like to
hear other's opinion, but I'm open to:
1. Revert HIVE-6469.
2. Expand the drop table syntax to:
DROP TABLE table_name [PURGE]
skipTrash is a no-go because it's too implementation specific, but PURGE seems
more generic and acceptable, which hides the implementation.
Let's wait for others to chime in.
> 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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