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Adam Kramer commented on HIVE-446: ---------------------------------- Another note: Sometimes I shut off hive.merge.mapfiles; because the extra mapreduce step really isn't worth it given that I'm effectively creating a temp table that I don't need to use again. The result is a lot of unnecessary inode usage, because I only need those inodes for one more query. If I had this option, I would turn off hive.merge.mapfiles;, run my query, run the dependent query, and then truncate the first table to save inodes. > Implement TRUNCATE > ------------------ > > Key: HIVE-446 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-446 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Prasad Chakka > Fix For: 0.4.2 > > > truncate the data but leave the table and metadata intact. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.