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Sergey Shelukhin edited comment on HIVE-18683 at 3/1/18 2:05 AM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Actually, upon considering the code and the scenarios for tests, I don't think we should do it. For MM table exports it would be safe but for ACID tables the result of a load would not be valid. When ACID ExIM works, it should handle this case (i.e. to load an exported ACID table, import should be used). Import being available, Export+Load doesn't make sense, we are going to say it's not a supported scenario. For flat tables, it's often possible to treat them as a directory, so it works by coincidence, as an unsupported case was (Author: sershe): Actually, upon considering the code and the tests, I don't think we should do it. For MM table exports it would be safe but for ACID tables the result of a load would not be valid. When ACID ExIM works, it should handle this case. For Export+Load, we are going to say it's not a supported scenario. For flat tables, it's often possible to treat them as a directory, so it works by coincidence, as an unsupported case > support ACID/MM subdirectories in LOAD > -------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-18683 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18683 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin > Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin > Priority: Major > > Currently, load does not support subdirectories. > It should be possible to flatten the directory structure when loading. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)