Hi Alex,

Could you kindly share the user scenario for copying data to external
table? Why don't we copy to internal table directly? Thanks :)  I thought
external table can directly points to the file which we need copy when
created.

Thanks
Lili

2016-07-28 6:53 GMT+08:00 Oleksandr Diachenko <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> Recently we discovered that COPY command for external tables is not
> transactional.
> It means if user is running COPY command and during this process underlying
> HDFS fails - the end state of table is inconstant.
> As a result I filled a JIRA -
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-956
> .
>
> From user perspective, COPY command might also need to support additional
> options, to make import/export process more flexible.
>
>    - Number of error lines to tolerate.
>    - Batch size to commit.
>    - TBD
>
> Please feel free to join discussion.
>
> Regards, Alex.
>

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