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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-7100:
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What should the behavior of drop table be for an immutable table? With and
without the purge option?
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There should be no difference in dropping table behavior regarding immutable
tables, accordingly HIVE-6406. Being "immutable" doesn't prevents "droping". It
only blocks "updating" when content exisits.
Purge is an option for dropping, Thus, there shouldn't be any relationship
between "immutable" and "purge".
> 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: david serafini
> Attachments: HIVE-7100.1.patch, HIVE-7100.10.patch,
> HIVE-7100.2.patch, HIVE-7100.3.patch, HIVE-7100.4.patch, HIVE-7100.5.patch,
> HIVE-7100.8.patch, HIVE-7100.9.patch, 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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