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Dan States commented on HIVE-335:
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I would love to see this feature get implemented for the reasons already
stated. I have data in a pig workflow that is much more convenient to query
via hive when performing ad-hoc analysis. I want read-only access to the data,
otherwise I have to copy the entire table for my personal user to be able to
poke around in the data, as I don't want to touch production work queues or
accidentally make changes.
> External Tables should have the option to be marked Read Only
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> Key: HIVE-335
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-335
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore, Query Processor
> Reporter: Richard Lee
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> When creating an External Table, it'd be awesome to have the option of NOT
> allowing writes to it (disallow any INSERTs or if hive ever allows UPDATEs).
> Adding and Dropping Partitions should still be allowed.
> This will enable hive to "play well" with external data stores other than
> hdfs where data should be non-maleable.
> I'd recomend the following syntax, which applies ONLY to external tables:
> CREATE EXTERNAL [READONLY] TABLE ...
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