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Naveen Gangam commented on HIVE-23467:
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Posting the +1 from yesterday on the PR to the jira.
> Add a skip.trash config for HMS to skip trash when deleting external table
> data
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> Key: HIVE-23467
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-23467
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Hive
> Reporter: Sam An
> Assignee: Yu-Wen Lai
> Priority: Trivial
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 0.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> We have an auto.purge flag, which means skip trash. It can be confusing as we
> have 'external.table.purge'='true' to indicate delete table data when this
> tblproperties is set.
> We should make the meaning clearer by introducing a skip trash alias/option.
> Additionally, we shall add an alias for external.table.purge, and name it
> external.table.autodelete, and document it more prominently, so as to
> maintain backward compatibility, and make the meaning of auto deletion of
> data more obvious.
> The net effect of these 2 changes will be. If the user sets
> 'external.table.autodelete'='true'
> the table data will be removed when table is dropped. and if
> 'skip.trash'='true'
> is set, HMS will not move the table data to trash folder when removing the
> files. This will result in faster removal, especially when underlying FS is
> S3.
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