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Thejas Nair commented on HIVE-24920:
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{quote}create table t(i integer);
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I agree that this should behave like the old managed table behavior
(irrespective of config). If old managed tables would have thrown error if the
dir exists, it should do so now as well.
> TRANSLATED_TO_EXTERNAL tables may write to the same location
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>
> Key: HIVE-24920
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-24920
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Zoltan Haindrich
> Assignee: Zoltan Haindrich
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 40m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> {code}
> create table t (a integer);
> insert into t values(1);
> alter table t rename to t2;
> create table t (a integer); -- I expected an exception from this command
> (location already exists) but because its an external table no exception
> insert into t values(2);
> select * from t; -- shows 1 and 2
> drop table t2; -- wipes out data location
> select * from t; -- empty resultset
> {code}
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