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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-9915:
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The description of *hive.default.fileformat.managed* should be rephrased to
clarify which default is which:
bq. Default file format for CREATE TABLE statement applied to managed tables
only. External tables will be created with default file format. Leaving this
null will result in using the default file format for all tables.
For example:
bq. Default file format for CREATE TABLE statement applied to managed tables
only. External tables will be created with the format specified by
hive.default.fileformat. Leaving this null will result in using
hive.default.fileformat for all tables.
> Allow specifying file format for managed tables
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> Key: HIVE-9915
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9915
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: File Formats
> Reporter: Gunther Hagleitner
> Assignee: Gunther Hagleitner
> Attachments: HIVE-9915.1.patch
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> We already allow setting a system wide default format. In some cases it's
> useful though to specify this only for managed tables, or distinguish
> external and managed via two variables. You might want to set a more
> efficient (than text) format for managed tables, but leave external to text
> (as they often are log files etc.)
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