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Alexander Kolbasov commented on HIVE-8446: ------------------------------------------ Why would tests attempt to delete /tmp directory? This seems like a test issue. But for this issue in general. Suppose that user deletes table T and it is successfully deleted in HMS but data deletion fails. Suppose that we return an error to a user. Now we are still in a weird state - table T is no longer visible in HMS but it still has data. Whether we return an error to a user or not things are in a bad state. > Failing to delete data after dropping a table or database should result in > error > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-8446 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8446 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Brock Noland > Assignee: Bharathkrishna Guruvayoor Murali > Priority: Major > Attachments: HIVE-8446.1.patch > > > Currently if we drop a table and it fails to delete the data, the command > completes successfully. We should instead return an error to the user. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)