Hi Peter, thanks for the info. I will ticket issues in case they show up. On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 4:14 AM Peter Vary <pv...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote:
> Hi Huadong, > > If the table location is not provided then the table will automatically be > placed under the database (namespace) location, but if the location is > provided then it could point to anywhere and the table should work. > The default directory structure could help with organizing you data, but > at the end is up to the user to decide. > > All that said, I do not know extensive tests around this so if you > encounter issues, feel free to open a ticket. > > Thanks, > Peter > > On Apr 28, 2021, at 02:52, Huadong Liu <huadong...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Iceberg Dev, > > Iceberg tables with hive catalog are created under > hive.metastore.warehouse.dir/<db> by default. Different table locations > <https://iceberg.apache.org/javadoc/0.11.1/org/apache/iceberg/BaseMetastoreCatalog.html#createTable-org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableIdentifier-org.apache.iceberg.Schema-org.apache.iceberg.PartitionSpec-java.lang.String-java.util.Map-> > are picked than the default hive.metastore.warehouse.dir for various > reasons (e.g. ownership separation and improved performance). The catalog > namespace > <https://iceberg.apache.org/javadoc/0.11.1/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveCatalog.html#createNamespace-org.apache.iceberg.catalog.Namespace-java.util.Map-> > has to be created under hive.metastore.warehouse.dir though. It's > effectively an empty directory if tables are created in other locations. > > Is there any concern on creating tables > outside hive.metastore.warehouse.dir? > > -- > Huadong > > >
