Hi all,
I found an enum TableType in package org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore. What's the difference between MANAGED_TABLE and EXTERNAL_TABLE? Will the table be an EXTERNAL TABLE with setting table type EXTERNAL_TABLE when creating table? I found the code to determine whether a table is an external table in MetaStoreUtils.java https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/MetaStoreUtils.java#L1425 I'm confused what is EXTERNAL_TABLE in TableType for?
