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_r274577077
########## File path: standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java ########## @@ -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) + throws InvalidOperationException { + // If the given DB is enabled for replication and strict managed is false, then table type cannot be changed. + // This is to avoid migration scenarios which causes ACID table to be converted to external at replica. + // As ACID tables cannot be converted to external table and vice versa, we need to restrict this conversion at + // primary as well. + if (!oldTbl.getTableType().equalsIgnoreCase(newTbl.getTableType()) + && !conf.getBoolean(MetastoreConf.ConfVars.STRICT_MANAGED_TABLES.getHiveName(), false) + && ReplChangeManager.isSourceOfReplication(db)) { Review comment: duplicate comment. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: gitbox-unsubscr...@hive.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: gitbox-h...@hive.apache.org