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Carl Steinbach updated HIVE-9020:
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Status: Open (was: Patch Available)
Changes have been requested so I'm setting the status to open.
> When dropping external tables, Hive should not verify whether user has access
> to the data.
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> Key: HIVE-9020
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9020
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.13.1
> Reporter: Anant Nag
> Attachments: dropExternal.patch
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> When dropping tables, hive verifies whether the user has access to the data
> on hdfs. It fails, if user doesn't have access. It makes sense for internal
> tables since the data has to be deleted when dropping internal tables but for
> external tables, Hive should not check for data access.
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