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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-9086:
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HIVE-7100 added the "drop-table-purge" functionality to read thus:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_doomed_table PURGE;
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Cool, then the doc is wrong in two places but the syntax is consistent for DROP
TABLE and DROP PARTITION. Thanks! I'll wait for the dust to settle before
fixing the doc.
* [DropTable |
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-DropTable]
* [Drop Partitions |
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-DropPartitions]
> Add language support to PURGE data while dropping partitions.
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> Key: HIVE-9086
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9086
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Metastore
> Affects Versions: 0.15.0
> Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
> Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
> Attachments: HIVE-9086.1.patch
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> HIVE-9083 adds metastore-support to skip-trash while dropping partitions.
> This patch includes language support to do the same.
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