GitHub user ashutosh-bapat opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/447
HIVE-20708: Load an external table as an external table on target with the same location as on the source Dump an external table as an external table. When loading an external table set the location of the target table same as the location of source, but relative to the file system of the target location. IOW, the scheme, authority of the target location is same as the target file system but the path relative to the file system is same as the source. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ashutosh-bapat/hive hive20708 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/447.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 #447 ---- commit c076bbbd2b0fd1b193ac51a1595911a80324b923 Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@...> Date: 2018-10-15T05:09:05Z HIVE-20708: Load an external table as an external table on target with the same location as on the source Dump an external table as an external table. When loading an external table set the location of the target table same as the location of source, but relative to the file system of the target location. IOW, the scheme, authority of the target location is same as the target file system but the path relative to the file system is same as the source. ---- ---