sankarh commented on a change in pull request #578: HIVE-21471: Replicating conversion of managed to external table leaks HDFS files at target. URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/578#discussion_r268480328
########## File path: standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java ########## @@ -192,12 +197,12 @@ public void alterTable(RawStore msdb, Warehouse wh, String catName, String dbnam // 2) the table is not an external table, and // 3) the user didn't change the default location (or new location is empty), and // 4) the table was not initially created with a specified location - if (rename - && !oldt.getTableType().equals(TableType.VIRTUAL_VIEW.toString()) - && (oldt.getSd().getLocation().compareTo(newt.getSd().getLocation()) == 0 - || StringUtils.isEmpty(newt.getSd().getLocation())) - && !MetaStoreUtils.isExternalTable(oldt)) { - Database olddb = msdb.getDatabase(catName, dbname); + if (replDataLocationChanged + || (rename Review comment: It cannot be same because the behaviour is different. If location is set for normal flow, we shouldn't update for partitions. Also, it is risky to modify any of current behaviour. It is not in scope of this ticket. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services