[HIVE-3068] Add ability to export table metadata as JSON on table drop

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: Metastore, Serializers/Deserializers
• Labels: features newbie
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Committed. Thanks Andrew.
• Assignee: Andrew Chalfant
• Reporter: Andrew Chalfant
• Created: 31/May/12 00:13
• Updated: 05/Apr/13 13:30
• Resolved: 01/Sep/12 00:41

Description

When a table is dropped, the contents go to the users trash but the metadata is lost. It would be super neat to be able to save the metadata as well so that tables could be trivially re-instantiated via thrift.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-4299 exported metadata by HIVE-3068 cannot be imported because of wrong file name