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Soundararajan Velu commented on HIVE-1082: ------------------------------------------ Thanks Ning, That makes sense, At the moment we have added code to log a WARN, but using Create or replace table is the right approach as you suggest, will update if we get this done.. > "create table if not exists " should check if the specified schema matches > the existing schema, and throw an error if it doesnt. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1082 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1082 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Venky Iyer > > I think we should make sure that the table can either be created anew with > the specified properties, or it already exists with those properties, where > 'properties' includes all metadata except timestamps. Anything else is an > error. This makes sense if you think of a table as the name + its schema, > instead of the name alone. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.