GitHub user animenon opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/388
HIVE-20057: Fix Hive table conversion DESCRIBE table bug Fix for #HIVE-20057 Issue: `Table Type` wrongly shown as `MANAGED_TABLE` after converting table from MANAGED to EXTERNAL using ` ALTER TABLE t SET TBLPROPERTIES ('EXTERNAL'='True')` _(this is shown correctly only for `'EXTERNAL'='TRUE`)_ You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/animenon/hive patch-1 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/388.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #388 ---- commit 1a9674645c3b4e3080f5278f6bea3126b1cebbac Author: Anirudh <animenon@...> Date: 2018-07-02T19:53:03Z HIVE-20057: Fix Hive table conversion DESCRIBE table bug `equals` to `equalsIgnoreCase` ---- ---