Hi folks, I have a question regarding HIVE 2837( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2837) that deals with disallowing external table from using insert into queries.
>From looking at the JIRA, it seems like it applies to external tables on HDFS as well. Technically, insert into should be ok for external tables on HDFS (and S3 as well). Seems like a storage file system level thing to specify whether insert into is applied and implement it. Historically, there hasn't been any real difference between creating an external table on HDFS vs creating a managed one. However, if we disallow insert into on external tables, that would mean that folks with external tables on HDFS wouldn't be able to make use of insert into functionality even though they should be able to. Do we want to allow insert into on HDFS tables regardless of whether they are external or not? Mark
