Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hive-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hive-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E57117E9B for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 83948 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jan 2015 04:59:35 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hive-dev-archive@hive.apache.org Received: (qmail 83831 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jan 2015 04:59:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@hive.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@hive.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@hive.apache.org Received: (qmail 83632 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jan 2015 04:59:35 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 83605 invoked by uid 99); 23 Jan 2015 04:59:34 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:59:34 +0000 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:59:34 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thejas M Nair (JIRA)" To: hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HIVE-9020) When dropping external tables, Hive should not verify whether user has access to the data. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9020?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14288752#comment-14288752 ] Thejas M Nair commented on HIVE-9020: ------------------------------------- Will you be able to also include a unit test for the patch ? > When dropping external tables, Hive should not verify whether user has access to the data. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9020 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9020 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.13.1 > Reporter: Anant Nag > Attachments: dropExternal.patch > > > When dropping tables, hive verifies whether the user has access to the data on hdfs. It fails, if user doesn't have access. It makes sense for internal tables since the data has to be deleted when dropping internal tables but for external tables, Hive should not check for data access. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)