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ASF GitHub Bot commented on HIVE-19569: --------------------------------------- GitHub user maheshk114 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/368 HIVE-19569 : alter table db1.t1 rename db2.t2 generates MetaStoreEventListener.onDropTable() changed create/drop table to alter table event You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/maheshk114/hive BUG-104447 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/368.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #368 ---- commit 498da7cfb697309a30cbfc723a708bfaaa9ef29e Author: Mahesh Kumar Behera <mbehera@...> Date: 2018-06-06T04:57:39Z HIVE-19569 : alter table db1.t1 rename db2.t2 generates MetaStoreEventListener.onDropTable() ---- > alter table db1.t1 rename db2.t2 generates > MetaStoreEventListener.onDropTable() > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-19569 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19569 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore, Standalone Metastore, Transactions > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Eugene Koifman > Assignee: mahesh kumar behera > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Attachments: HIVE-19569.01.patch > > > When renaming a table within the same DB, this operation causes > {{MetaStoreEventListener.onAlterTable()}} to fire but when changing DB name > for a table it causes {{MetaStoreEventListener.onDropTable()}} + > {{MetaStoreEventListener.onCreateTable()}}. > The files from original table are moved to new table location. > This creates confusing semantics since any logic in {{onDropTable()}} doesn't > know about the larger context, i.e. that there will be a matching > {{onCreateTable()}}. > In particular, this causes a problem for Acid tables since files moved from > old table use WriteIDs that are not meaningful with the context of new table. > Current implementation is due to replication. This should ideally be changed > to raise a "not supported" error for tables that are marked for replication. > cc [~sankarh] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)