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Bing Li reassigned HIVE-16950: ------------------------------ Assignee: Bing Li > Dropping hive database/table which was created explicitly in default database > location, deletes all databases data from default database location > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-16950 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16950 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Hive > Affects Versions: 1.2.1 > Reporter: Rahul Kalgunde > Assignee: Bing Li > Priority: Minor > > When database/table is created explicitly pointing to the default location, > dropping the database/table deletes all the data associated with the all > databases/tables. > Steps to replicate: > in below e.g. dropping table test_db2 also deletes data of test_db1 where as > metastore still contains test_db1 > hive> create database test_db1; > OK > Time taken: 4.858 seconds > hive> describe database test_db1; > OK > test_db1 > hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/apps/hive/warehouse/test_db1.db root > USER > Time taken: 0.599 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) > hive> create database test_db2 location '/apps/hive/warehouse' ; > OK > Time taken: 1.457 seconds > hive> describe database test_db2; > OK > test_db2 > hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/apps/hive/warehouse root USER > Time taken: 0.582 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) > hive> drop database test_db2; > OK > Time taken: 1.317 seconds > hive> dfs -ls /apps/hive/warehouse; > ls: `/apps/hive/warehouse': No such file or directory > Command failed with exit code = 1 > Query returned non-zero code: 1, cause: null > hive> describe database test_db1; > OK > test_db1 > hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/apps/hive/warehouse/test_db1.db root > USER > Time taken: 0.629 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)