Oye, got it. Sorry. RTFM: hive.exec.drop.ignorenonexistent
On Aug 6, 2012, at 11:06 , Keith Wiley wrote: > I'm wrapping hive in a web tool and would like to do some basic > error-checking. If an attempt is made to drop a table that doesn't exist, I > would like to show an error message. The problem is, hive doesn't seem to > produce any sort of error when dropping a table that doesn't exists. > Furthermore, if hive is run on the command line (-e) it doesn't return an > error status. Therefore, I think the only way to detect such an error is to > actually inspect the table list (show tables) and manually see if the drop > attempt will find a corresponding table. > > Can I get an error of some sort on this or is it not possible? > > Thank you. > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com > music.keithwiley.com > > "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with > sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." > -- Galileo Galilei > ________________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com music.keithwiley.com "And what if we picked the wrong religion? Every week, we're just making God madder and madder!" -- Homer Simpson ________________________________________________________________________________