zeroflag commented on a change in pull request #1856:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/1856#discussion_r571952378



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File path: 
standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/MetastoreDefaultTransformer.java
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@@ -583,29 +584,34 @@ public Table transformCreateTable(Table table, 
List<String> processorCapabilitie
       throw new MetaException("Database " + dbName + " for table " + 
table.getTableName() + " could not be found");
     }
 
-      if (TableType.MANAGED_TABLE.name().equals(tableType)) {
+    if (TableType.MANAGED_TABLE.name().equals(tableType)) {
       LOG.debug("Table is a MANAGED_TABLE");
       txnal = params.get(TABLE_IS_TRANSACTIONAL);
       txn_properties = params.get(TABLE_TRANSACTIONAL_PROPERTIES);
+      boolean ctas = Boolean.valueOf(params.getOrDefault(TABLE_IS_CTAS, 
"false"));
       isInsertAcid = (txn_properties != null && 
txn_properties.equalsIgnoreCase("insert_only"));
       if ((txnal == null || txnal.equalsIgnoreCase("FALSE")) && !isInsertAcid) 
{ // non-ACID MANAGED TABLE
-        LOG.info("Converting " + newTable.getTableName() + " to EXTERNAL 
tableType for " + processorId);
-        newTable.setTableType(TableType.EXTERNAL_TABLE.toString());
-        params.remove(TABLE_IS_TRANSACTIONAL);
-        params.remove(TABLE_TRANSACTIONAL_PROPERTIES);
-        params.put("EXTERNAL", "TRUE");
-        params.put(EXTERNAL_TABLE_PURGE, "TRUE");
-        params.put("TRANSLATED_TO_EXTERNAL", "TRUE");
-        newTable.setParameters(params);
-        LOG.info("Modified table params are:" + params.toString());
-
-        if (!table.isSetSd() || table.getSd().getLocation() == null) {
-          try {
-            Path newPath = hmsHandler.getWh().getDefaultTablePath(db, 
table.getTableName(), true);
-            newTable.getSd().setLocation(newPath.toString());
-            LOG.info("Modified location from null to " + newPath);
-          } catch (Exception e) {
-            LOG.warn("Exception determining external table location:" + 
e.getMessage());
+        if (ctas) {

Review comment:
       We remove it from the outside at HiveMetaStore>>create_table_core. Since 
transformCreateTable is not always called (only if the transformer is not null).
   
   ```      
   if (tbl.getParameters() != null) {
       tbl.getParameters().remove(TABLE_IS_CTAS);
   }
     ```




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