Github user srowen commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/22466 That link says Hive does support EXTERNAL. What am I missing? Well, in any event we aren't contemplating a behavior change here. If you delete a table with LOCATION specified, what should happen? Hive would delete it I guess... unless it's EXTERNAL. Looks like Spark would delete it even when it's in an 'external' location. If these are conflated I guess we weigh the surprise in not deleting 'local' locations for data when a table is dropped, vs surprise in deleting 'external' locations for data.
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