[HIVE-19812] Disable external table replication by default via a configuration property

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.0, 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0, 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: repl
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Target Version/s: 3.2.0, 4.0.0
• Assignee: mahesh kumar behera
• Reporter: mahesh kumar behera
• Due: 11/Jun/18
• Created: 06/Jun/18 04:03
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:55
• Resolved: 08/Jul/18 10:38

Description

use a hive config property to allow external table replication. set this property by default to prevent external table replication.

for metadata only hive repl always export metadata for external tables.

 

REPL_DUMP_EXTERNAL_TABLES("hive.repl.dump.include.external.tables", false,
"Indicates if repl dump should include information about external tables. It should be \n"
+ "used in conjunction with 'hive.repl.dump.metadata.only' set to false. if 'hive.repl.dump.metadata.only' \n"
+ " is set to true then this config parameter has no effect as external table meta data is flushed \n"
+ " always by default.")

This should be done for only replication dump and not for export

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #365
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #365