sankarh commented on a change in pull request #591: HIVE-21500: Disable
conversion of managed table to external and vice versa at source.
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/591#discussion_r274574728
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File path:
standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java
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@@ -803,6 +805,22 @@ public Partition alterPartition(RawStore msdb, Warehouse
wh, String catName, Str
return oldParts;
}
+ private void checkTableTypeConversion(Database db, Table oldTbl, Table
newTbl)
Review comment:
If we restrict only managed to external and external to managed conversion,
then the new type introduced in future might break replication. So, we cannot
guarantee it.
I think, it is better to restrict any table type conversion. Maybe, in the
comment, I will add this point.
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