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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-6469:
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What user doc does this need, besides adding *hive.warehouse.data.skipTrash* to
the Configuration Properties wikidoc? If it's just an administrative config,
it could be mentioned in the Admin Manual's section on Configuration Variables
(link below). But if it's also for users, it should be mentioned in the DDL
doc's Drop Table section, which includes this sentence and further discussion:
"The data is actually moved to the .Trash/Current directory if Trash is
configured."
* [Admin Manual -- Configuration Variables
|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+Configuration#AdminManualConfiguration-ConfigurationVariables]
* [Language Manual -- DDL -- Drop Table
|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-DropTable]
> 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
> Assignee: Jayesh
> Fix For: 0.14.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-6469.1.patch, HIVE-6469.2.patch, HIVE-6469.3.patch,
> HIVE-6469.patch
>
>
> 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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