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> I can see that the table type is still "MANAGED_TABLE", is this a bug of
> metastore api?
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> *发件人:* Mich Talebzadeh
> *发送时间:* 2016年12月2日 5:29
> *收件人:* user
> *主题:* Re: Differe
h hive metastore api:
client.getTable("dbName", "tableName");
I can see that the table type is still "MANAGED_TABLE", is this a bug of
metastore api?
发件人: Mich Talebzadeh
发送时间: 2016年12月2日 5:29
收件人: user
主题: Re: Diff
Adding to Alan's points external tables are used often as a staging area.
For example, ingesting data from HDFS location on a daily basis and putting
that data into Hive managed tables. That location of that external table
can change pointing to a new HDFS directory created by say Flume etc
through
Hive does not assume that it owns the data for an external table. Thus when an
external table is dropped, the data is not deleted. People often use this as a
way to load data into a directory in HDFS and then “cast” a table structure
over it by creating an external table with that directory as
Hi all,
I found an enum TableType in package org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore. What's
the difference between MANAGED_TABLE and EXTERNAL_TABLE?
Will the table be an EXTERNAL TABLE with setting table type EXTERNAL_TABLE when
creating table?
I found the code to determine whether a table is an