Shuaishuai Nie created HIVE-5032: ------------------------------------ Summary: Enable hive creating external table at the root directory of DFS Key: HIVE-5032 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5032 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Shuaishuai Nie
Creating external table using HIVE with location point to the root directory of DFS will fail because the function HiveFileFormatUtils#doGetPartitionDescFromPath treat authority of the path the same as folder and cannot find a match in the "pathToPartitionInfo" table when doing prefix match. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira