dengzhhu653 commented on code in PR #3920:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/3920#discussion_r1064598255
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standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java:
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@@ -270,8 +270,12 @@ public void alterTable(RawStore msdb, Warehouse wh, String
catName, String dbnam
// get new location
assert(isReplicated == HMSHandler.isDbReplicationTarget(db));
- if (renamedTranslatedToExternalTable) {
+ if (renamedTranslatedToExternalTable && !tableInSpecifiedLoc) {
destPath = new Path(newt.getSd().getLocation());
Review Comment:
What happen if the path for the old table `b` is
`file:${system:test.tmp.dir}/tmp.db/b`? Does it throw the same exception?
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