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Mostafa Elhemali commented on HIVE-5032:
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+1 from me as well - thanks [~shuainie].
> Enable hive creating external table at the root directory of DFS
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> Key: HIVE-5032
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5032
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Shuaishuai Nie
> Attachments: HIVE-5032.1.patch
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> Creating external table using HIVE with location point to the root directory
> of DFS will fail because the function
> HiveFileFormatUtils#doGetPartitionDescFromPath treat authority of the path
> the same as folder and cannot find a match in the "pathToPartitionInfo" table
> when doing prefix match.
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