DROP TABLE does not respect the IF EXISTS clause

[Marc Limotte]

Hi,

I'm testing with Hive 0.9.0 (in Amazon EC2, but NOT emr).  I'm experiencing
a problem where DROP TABLE does not respect the IF EXISTS clause, so it
still throws an error when the table doesn't exist and this causes the
script to stop executing.  Here's what it looks like from the hive shell:

hive> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS recalc_aggregate_premium;

FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Table not found recalc_aggregate_premium


Marc