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Bharathkrishna Guruvayoor Murali commented on HIVE-335:
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I was looking at this JIRA, and found that there is
HiveConf.HIVE_INSERT_INTO_EXTERNAL_TABLES which determines _whether insert into
external tables is allowed._
So does this Jira mean we need certain tables to behave READONLY irrespective
of this configuration value?
> External Tables should have the option to be marked Read Only
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>
> Key: HIVE-335
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-335
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore, Query Processor
> Reporter: Richard Lee
> Priority: Major
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> When creating an External Table, it'd be awesome to have the option of NOT
> allowing writes to it (disallow any INSERTs or if hive ever allows UPDATEs).
> Adding and Dropping Partitions should still be allowed.
> This will enable hive to "play well" with external data stores other than
> hdfs where data should be non-maleable.
> I'd recomend the following syntax, which applies ONLY to external tables:
> CREATE EXTERNAL [READONLY] TABLE ...
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