Yes, I agree, hive by design provides a feature to put stuff in trash while deleting it. but I found some people wanting this feature to skipTrash when necessary (by providing extra token on cmd line). and as you pointed out, I feel the same, there is no reason not to have this feature.
Thanks Jay On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Due to the nature of hadoop most people usually have substantial overhead, > and there trash is set accordingly to prevent accidental data loss. > > That being said there is no reason not to have this feature. > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Jacky <jhsonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> what do you guys think about this small feature : >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6469<http://bl-1.com/click/load/AzcPPVQ3VWkHblUwCTs-b0231> >> >> Please comment. >> >> Thanks >> Jay >> > >