Hi,
I've noticed the same thing we set the table parameter as well to make sure
the table is External.
replica.putToParameters("EXTERNAL", "TRUE")
Not sure if the tableType is actually used anywhere, we set it anyway as
well as the table parameter just to be sure when using the Metastore API.
No clue if it is a bug but setting the table parameter will work.
Patrick
2016-12-02 8:38 GMT+01:00 Huang Meilong :
> Thanks for your detailed explanations.
>
>
> I'm not asking what the concepts of INTERNAL TABLE and EXTERNAL TABLE in
> hive, I'm just confused what does the value "EXTERNAL_TABLE" in class
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.TableType mean?
>
>
> I create a table setting table type TableType.EXTERNAL_TABLE by calling
> hive metastore api like this:
>
>
> final HiveMetaStoreClient client = new HiveMetaStoreClient(c);
>
> Table newTable = new Table();
>
> newTable.setTableType(TableType.EXTERNAL_TABLE.toString());
>
> ...
>
> client.createTable(newTable);
>
>
> then I describe the created table with 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: Difference between MANAGED_TABLE and EXTERNAL_TABLE in
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TableType
>
> 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 ALTER table like below
>
> ALTER TABLE ${DATABASE}.EXTERNALMARKETDATA set location
> 'hdfs://rhes564:9000/data/prices/${TODAY}';
>
>
> HTH
>
> Dr Mich Talebzadeh
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> On 1 December 2016 at 17:53, Alan Gates wrote:
>
>> 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 its location.
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>> > On Dec 1, 2016, at 06:15, Huang Meilong wrote:
>> >
>> > 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 external table in
>> MetaStoreUtils.java
>> > https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/metastore/src/
>> java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/MetaStoreUtils.java#L1425
>> >
>> > I'm confused what is EXTERNAL_TABLE in TableType for?
>>
>>
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