'location' clause for table creation should only be allowed for external tables
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Key: HIVE-109
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-109
Project: Hadoop Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
currently - the code does not by and large distinguish between external and
internal tables. one clear distinction though is that storage for external
tables is managed outside hive. this leads to consequences like HIVE-86 - so
that hive does not mess around with tables whose storage is managed externally.
however - currently - we allow users to specify location for internal tables -
which is confusing and could lead to data being deleted in external folders. we
should not allow this.
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