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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-6406: -------------------------------------- This needs documentation -- how about a release note for starters? (Of course HIVE-6465 will also need documentation after it's committed.) Table properties are inadequately documented in the wiki -- see my Feb. 14th message to dev@hive: * [User doc for table properties |http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-dev/201402.mbox/%3cCACEcauVSQt1TCrKg=_oqr2nqse5aux7xuzbxccnx-mlnco4...@mail.gmail.com%3e] > Introduce immutable-table table property and if set, disallow insert-into > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6406 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6406 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: HCatalog, Metastore, Query Processor, Thrift API > Reporter: Sushanth Sowmyan > Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-6406.2.patch, HIVE-6406.3.patch, HIVE-6406.patch > > > As part of HIVE-6405's attempt to make HCatalog and Hive behave in similar > ways with regards to immutable tables, this is a companion task to introduce > the notion of an immutable table, wherein all tables are not immutable by > default, and have this be a table property. If this property is set for a > table, and we attempt to write to a table that already has data (or a > partition), disallow "INSERT INTO" into it from hive(if destination directory > is non-empty). This property being set will allow hive to mimic HCatalog's > current immutable-table property. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)