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Yin Huai commented on HIVE-7633:
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Changes in HIVE-1537 allows users to specify the location of a table. But, it
did not change warehouse to correctly return the location of the table.
> Warehouse#getTablePath() doesn't handle external tables
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> Key: HIVE-7633
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7633
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.8.1, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, 0.14.0,
> 0.13.1
> Reporter: Joey Echeverria
> Priority: Critical
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> Warehouse#getTablePath() takes a DB and a table name. This means it will
> generate the wrong path for external tables. This can cause a problem if you
> have an external table on the local file system and HDFS is not currently
> running when trying to gather statistics.
> getTablePath() should take in the table and see if it's external and has a
> location before just assuming it's a managed table.
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