Ashutosh Bapat created HIVE-20708:
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Summary: Load (dumped) an external table as an external table on
target with the same location as on the source
Key: HIVE-20708
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20708
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: repl
Reporter: Ashutosh Bapat
Assignee: Ashutosh Bapat
External tables are currently mapped to managed tables on target. A lot of jobs
in user environment are dependent upon locations specified in external table
definitions to run, hence, the path for external tables on the target and on
the source are expected to be the same. An external table being loaded as a
managed table makes it difficult for failover (Controlled Failover) / failback
since there is no option of moving data from managed to external table. So the
external table replicated to target cluster needs to be kept as external table
with same location as on the source.
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