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Bharathkrishna Guruvayoor Murali commented on HIVE-8446: -------------------------------------------------------- Yes, that is the case. But if the data was not deleted, it would be good to at least let the user know that failure occurred. > 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)