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Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-10421: ----------------------------------------- Added to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+1.2+Release+Status. Please go ahead and commit to branch-1.2 > DROP TABLE with qualified table name ignores database name when checking > partitions > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-10421 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10421 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Jason Dere > Assignee: Jason Dere > Fix For: 1.3.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-10421.1.patch, HIVE-10421.2.patch > > > Hive was only recently changed to allow "drop table dbname.tabname". However > DDLTask.dropTable() is still using an older version of > Hive.getPartitionNames(), which only took in a single string for the table > name, rather than the database and table names. As a result Hive is filling > in the current database name as the dbname during the listPartitions call to > the MetaStore. > It also appears that on the Hive Metastore side, in the non-auth path there > is no validation to check that the dbname.tablename actually exists - this > call simply returns back an empty list of partitions, which causes the table > to be dropped without checking any of the partition information. I will open > a separate issue for this one. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)