Jason Dere created HIVE-19329:
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Summary: Disallow some optimizations/behaviors for external tables
Key: HIVE-19329
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19329
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Jason Dere
Assignee: Jason Dere
External tables in Hive are often used in situations where the data is being
created and managed by other applications outside of Hive. There are several
issues that can occur when data being written to table directories by external
apps:
- If an application is writing files to a table/partition at the same time that
Hive tries to merge files for the same table/partition (ALTER TABLE
CONCATENATE, or hive.merge.tezfiles during insert) data can be lost.
- When new data has been added to the table by external applications, the Hive
table statistics are often way out of date with the current state of the data.
This can result in wrong results in the case of answering queries using stats,
or bad query plans being generated.
Some of these operations should be blocked in Hive. It looks like some already
have been (HIVE-17403).
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