RE: File permissions when creating external table

2012-08-28 Thread Zoltán Tóth-Czifra
PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: File permissions when creating external table Hi, I understand that, to create a new table in Hive with an external data source, you don't need to have write permissions to the files themselves (only the metastore). However, I receive the following er

File permissions when creating external table

2012-08-27 Thread Zoltán Tóth-Czifra
Hi, I understand that, to create a new table in Hive with an external data source, you don't need to have write permissions to the files themselves (only the metastore). However, I receive the following error when I try to create the table with only read rights to the files. DROP TABLE IF EXIS