Hi, We are seeing a hive table is gone unexpectedly.
I suspect that this must have been caused by someone somewhere issuing a "drop table" command. But it's unclear. My question is : are there other known ways for hive to lose a table besides "drop table". For example, let's say that the underlying hdfs file system is having some trouble, it is unreachable for a few minutes, maybe hive could think "I don't see the hdfs files I need for this table. I will assume the user wishes to delete the table." And then it proceeds to cause an automatic deletion. That would certainly be terrible. :-) But I hope you see what I am getting at.. Other ways which might cause a table to be lost, besides someone typing in the "drop table" command in a hive session. Thanks, Sam
