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Alan Gates commented on HIVE-4341: ---------------------------------- Are you thinking of this as a configuration option? I don't think most users would want this. > Make Hive table external by default > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-4341 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4341 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Romit Singhai > > Make the default table definition in Hive as external to prevent users from > accidentally deleting data. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira