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Jeff Hammerbacher updated HIVE-109: ----------------------------------- Component/s: Query Processor Adding to "Query Processor" component. > 'location' clause for table creation should only be allowed for external > tables > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-109 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-109 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma > > currently - the code does not by and large distinguish between external and > internal tables. one clear distinction though is that storage for external > tables is managed outside hive. this leads to consequences like HIVE-86 - so > that hive does not mess around with tables whose storage is managed > externally. however - currently - we allow users to specify location for > internal tables - which is confusing and could lead to data being deleted in > external folders. we should not allow this. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.