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Carl Steinbach resolved HIVE-12746.
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Resolution: Duplicate
Resolving this as a duplicate of HIVE-9020
> when dropping external hive tables，hive metastore should not check the hdfs
> path write permission
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> Key: HIVE-12746
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12746
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Metastore
> Affects Versions: 1.2.1
> Environment: hive1.2.1 hadoop2.6
> Reporter: wangfeng
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: hdfspermission, metastore
> Original Estimate: 168h
> Remaining Estimate: 168h
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> 1 user1 has readonly permission on hdfs path '/user/www/seller_shop_info';
> 2 user1 create external table seller_shop_info on the hdfs path;
> 3 user1 drop the exernal table seller_shop_info
> then problem occurred!
> hive> drop table seller_shop_info;
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:Table metadata
> not deleted since hdfs://argo/user/www/seller_shop_info is not writable by
> user1)
> because when dropping external table,hive doesnot delete hdfs path,so hive
> metastore should not check the hdfs write permission
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