sankarh commented on a change in pull request #578: HIVE-21471: Replicating conversion of managed to external table leaks HDFS files at target. URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/578#discussion_r268381082
########## File path: standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java ########## @@ -99,9 +100,12 @@ public void alterTable(RawStore msdb, Warehouse wh, String catName, String dbnam dbname = dbname.toLowerCase(); final boolean cascade = environmentContext != null - && environmentContext.isSetProperties() - && StatsSetupConst.TRUE.equals(environmentContext.getProperties().get( - StatsSetupConst.CASCADE)); + && environmentContext.isSetProperties() + && StatsSetupConst.TRUE.equals(environmentContext.getProperties().get(StatsSetupConst.CASCADE)); + final boolean replDataLocationChanged = environmentContext != null Review comment: It is not possible in normal flow to have table type changed from managed to external and location set in same ALTER query. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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