animenon commented on a change in pull request #388: HIVE-20057: Fix Hive table conversion DESCRIBE table bug URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/388#discussion_r264023088
########## File path: standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java ########## @@ -1802,12 +1802,12 @@ private MTable convertToMTable(Table tbl) throws InvalidObjectException, // accordingly String tableType = tbl.getTableType(); boolean isExternal = Boolean.parseBoolean(tbl.getParameters().get("EXTERNAL")); - if (TableType.MANAGED_TABLE.toString().equals(tableType)) { + if (TableType.MANAGED_TABLE.toString().equalsIgnoreCase(tableType)) { Review comment: IgnoreCase used [here](https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/e4d60e29910ec709d432fd85819cb6b6d097d689/standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java#L1810) : `if (TableType.EXTERNAL_TABLE.toString().equalsIgnoreCase(tableType))` for EXTERNAL property and tableType equals check would check if equals ignoring the case of letters. I agree the tableType ignoreCase [here](https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/e4d60e29910ec709d432fd85819cb6b6d097d689/standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java#L1805) may not be required. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services