Thank you Jarcec and Ranjith for your inputs. Good wishes,always ! Santosh
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Ranjith <[email protected]>wrote: > Another option is to use the .hiverc file and set the property to make it > external. This will default the tables to being external. It is a hack but > you ca avoid the alter table command. > > Thanks, > Ranjith > > On Jan 7, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Santosh, > > Sqoop is not supporting HIVE external tables at the moment. > > > > Feel free to file a JIRA [1] to add such support. > > > > Jarcec > > > > Links: > > 1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP > > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 07:52:17PM +0800, Santosh Achhra wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is creating external tables not supported in Sqoop ? When I execute > sqoop > >> import command with --hiveimport option, by default a managed tables is > >> getting created, then I have to fire Alter command to change table > >> properties to change table to external table > >> > >> Good wishes,always ! > >> Santosh >
