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Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque commented on SQOOP-2647:
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I would like to work on this small feature if it seems a good/valid improvement.
> Add option for drop-if-exists when using sqoop hcat import.
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> Key: SQOOP-2647
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-2647
> Project: Sqoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: hive-integration
> Affects Versions: 1.4.6
> Reporter: Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque
> Assignee: Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque
> Priority: Minor
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> To recover from a failed sqoop import via hcat using --create-hcatalog-table,
> there is a manual step needed to clean up the hive table i.e. (DROP TABLE IF
> EXISTS <table_name>). It would be great to have another flag
> --drop-hcatalog-table-if-exists, which works only if --create-hcatalog-table
> is present and the effect would be that it drops the hive/hcatalog table
> before running the data import.
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