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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-6469:
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If a user is willing to commit an optional syntax that does not cause a
language ambiguity I think we should allow the user to add the feature.
Rational : currently dfs -rm allows an optional --skip trash. Normal users are
able to control if a delete skips trash or not, regardless of how admins set
the trash feature.
A natual extension is to extend this functionality to drop table.
> skipTrash option in hive command line
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> Key: HIVE-6469
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6469
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: CLI
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0
> Reporter: Jayesh
> Fix For: 0.12.1
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> Attachments: HIVE-6469.patch
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> hive drop table command deletes the data from HDFS warehouse and puts it into
> Trash.
> Currently there is no way to provide flag to tell warehouse to skip trash
> while deleting table data.
> This ticket is to add skipTrash feature in hive command-line, that looks as
> following.
> hive -e "drop table skipTrash testTable"
> This would be good feature to add, so that user can specify when not to put
> data into trash directory and thus not to fill hdfs space instead of relying
> on trash interval and policy configuration to take care of disk filling issue.
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