A database's warehouse.dir is not used for tables created in it. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2033 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2033 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Clients, Metastore Affects Versions: 0.7.0, 0.8.0 Reporter: Thiruvel Thirumoolan Assignee: Thiruvel Thirumoolan Fix For: 0.8.0 $ create database db with dbproperties ('hive.metastore.warehouse.dir' = 'loc'); $ use db; $ create table test(name string); Table 'test's location is not under 'loc'. Instead its under hive-site.xml's warehouse dir. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira