saihemanth-cloudera commented on code in PR #4752:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/4752#discussion_r1343165808
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standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java:
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@@ -679,7 +679,9 @@ public Partition alterPartition(RawStore msdb, Warehouse
wh, String catName, Str
// 1) partition SD Location
// 2) partition column stats if there are any because of part_name field
in HMS table PART_COL_STATS
// 3) rename the partition directory if it is not an external table
- if (!tbl.getTableType().equals(TableType.EXTERNAL_TABLE.toString())) {
+ boolean shouldMoveData = !(MetaStoreUtils.isExternalTable(tbl) &&
+ !MetaStoreUtils.isPropertyTrue(tbl.getParameters(),
"TRANSLATED_TO_EXTERNAL"));
Review Comment:
Do we need to relocate the partitioned data of all the externally translated
tables or only the ones that are translated with the config
"hive.create.as.external.legacy"?
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