looks like a good use case
created and improvement request
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2980
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Sukhendu Chakraborty <
sukhendu.chakrabo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Nitin. I am aware of what Hive is doing. The question is, is it
> okay not return an
Thanks Nitin. I am aware of what Hive is doing. The question is, is it
okay not return an error/warning when no data is found since the
metadata for the table also contains the data location when you create
the table (which creates the hdfs directory as well). So, if somebody
erroneously removes t
hive table meta data is stored into a meta data store which will retain the
table structure and other meta info even if you delete hdfs table directory
as its stored in metadata store db.
When you do a select * from table;
1) hive checks for table exists in metadata store
2) if table is existing t
