Lars Francke updated the Metastore Admin doc <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+MetastoreAdmin#AdminManualMetastoreAdmin-AdditionalConfigurationParameters> as follows:
hive.metastore.metadb.dir The location of filestore metadata base > directory. (Functionality removed in 0.4.0 with HIVE-143 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-143>) > But hive.metastore.metadb.dir still exists in HiveConf.java. As I'm making various other fixes to HiveConf.java in HIVE-6586 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6586>, should I remove this obsolete parameter? -- Lefty