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Chinna Rao Lalam commented on HIVE-9638: ---------------------------------------- Hi, In Hive 0.7.0 or later, DROP returns an error if the index doesn't exist, unless IF EXISTS is specified or the configuration variable hive.exec.drop.ignorenonexistent is set to true. > Drop Index does not check Index or Table exisit or not > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-9638 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9638 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Parser > Affects Versions: 0.11.0, 0.13.0, 0.14.0, 1.0.0 > Reporter: Will Du > > DROP INDEX index_name ON table_name; > statement will be always successful no matter the index_name or table_name > exsit -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)