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ASF GitHub Bot commented on HIVE-20057:
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GitHub user animenon opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/388
HIVE-20057: Fix Hive table conversion DESCRIBE table bug
Fix for #HIVE-20057
Issue: `Table Type` wrongly shown as `MANAGED_TABLE` after converting table
from MANAGED to EXTERNAL using ` ALTER TABLE t SET TBLPROPERTIES
('EXTERNAL'='True')`
_(this is shown correctly only for `'EXTERNAL'='TRUE`)_
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
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Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/388.patch
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This closes #388
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commit 1a9674645c3b4e3080f5278f6bea3126b1cebbac
Author: Anirudh <animenon@...>
Date: 2018-07-02T19:53:03Z
HIVE-20057: Fix Hive table conversion DESCRIBE table bug
`equals` to `equalsIgnoreCase`
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> For ALTER TABLE t SET TBLPROPERTIES ('EXTERNAL'='TRUE'); `TBL_TYPE` attribute
> change not reflecting for non-CAPS
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>
> Key: HIVE-20057
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20057
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Standalone Metastore
> Affects Versions: All Versions
> Reporter: Anirudh
> Assignee: Anirudh
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: pull-request-available
>
> Hive EXTERNAL table shown as MANAGED after conversion using
>
> ALTER TABLE t SET TBLPROPERTIES ('EXTERNAL'='True')
>
> The DESCRIBE FORMATTED shows:
> Table Type: MANAGED_TABLE
> Table Parameters:
> EXTERNAL True
>
> This is actually a External table but shown wrongly as 'True' was used in
> place of 'TRUE' in the ALTER statement.
> Issue explained here:
> [StakOverflow - Hive Table is MANAGED or
> EXTERNAL|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51103317/hive-table-is-managed-or-external/51142873#51142873]
>
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