wecharyu commented on PR #4860: URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/4860#issuecomment-1802104450
Hi @aturoczy , I got your point! I agree with you that a permission check is necessary for operations like drop_table even if it's an external table. But I think such permission check should be done through `MetaStorePreEventListener` like `HiveMetaStoreAuthorizer`. And the file system permission check should be done only when the operation need delete file path. A common case we encountered is that upstream or ingestion maintains a partitioned table and data, the user can create external table on sub-directory of the table, where user owns the external table but no write permission on the upstream data files. User should be able to drop their own external table in this case. -- 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. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
