Marc, It seemed to work on my installation of Hive 0.9. Is this a table or a view you are trying to drop? Mind sharing the create table definition?
Mark On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Marc Limotte <mslimo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
