Sai Hemanth Gantasala created HIVE-26911: --------------------------------------------
Summary: Renaming a translated external table with a specified location fails with 'location already exists' exception Key: HIVE-26911 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-26911 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Standalone Metastore Affects Versions: 4.0.0 Reporter: Sai Hemanth Gantasala Assignee: Sai Hemanth Gantasala Renaming a translated external table with a specified location fails with 'location already exists' exception. Below are steps for repro {code:java} create database tmp; use tmp; create table b(s string) stored as parquet location 'hdfs://localhost:20500/test-warehouse/tmp.db/some_location'; alter table b rename to bb; ERROR: InvalidOperationException: New location for this table hive.tmp.bb already exists : hdfs://localhost:20500/test-warehouse/tmp.db/some_location {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)