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Ning Zhang commented on HIVE-2352: ---------------------------------- Franklin, a simpler description of your fix would be: create empty files if and only if table is bucketed and hive.enforce.bucketing=true, right? > selecting no rows and overwriting a table creates empty file for > nonbucketized table > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-2352 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2352 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Franklin Hu > Assignee: Franklin Hu > Priority: Minor > Attachments: hive-2352.1.patch > > > create table t1 (key int, value string) stored as rcfile; > insert overwrite table t1 select * from src where false; > Creates an empty RCFile with no rows and size 151B. The file not should be > created since there are no rows. > Fix: > If bucketing IS NOT enforced: > Create empty files in neither bucketed nor non-bucketed tables > If bucketing IS enforced: > Do not create empty files in non-bucketed tables > Create BUCKET_COUNT number of empty files for bucketed tables -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira