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Eugene Koifman commented on HIVE-13175: --------------------------------------- +1 > Disallow making external tables transactional > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-13175 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13175 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Transactions > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > Reporter: Wei Zheng > Assignee: Wei Zheng > Attachments: HIVE-13175.1.patch, HIVE-13175.2.patch, > HIVE-13175.3.patch, HIVE-13175.4.patch > > > The fact that compactor rewrites contents of ACID tables is in conflict with > what is expected of external tables. > Conversely, end user can write to External table which certainly not what is > expected of ACID table. > So we should explicitly disallow making an external table ACID. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)