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Paul Butler commented on HIVE-1763: ----------------------------------- I was concerned about breaking DROP TABLE's idempotence, so rather than throwing an exception I just print the error to the console. If someone can suggest a better approach I'll do it. > drop table (or view) should issue warning if table doesn't exist > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1763 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1763 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Metastore > Reporter: dan f > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HIVE-1763.patch > > > drop table reports "OK" even if the table doesn't exist. Better to report > something like mysql's "Unknown table 'foo'" so that, e.g., unwanted tables > (especially ones with names prone to typos) don't persist. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.