[HIVE-5032] Enable hive creating external table at the root directory of DFS

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Assignee: Shuaishuai Nie
• Reporter: Shuaishuai Nie
• Created: 09/Aug/13 00:07
• Updated: 14/Jan/14 00:52
• Resolved: 14/Jan/14 00:44

Description

Creating external table using HIVE with location point to the root directory of DFS will fail because the function HiveFileFormatUtils#doGetPartitionDescFromPath treat authority of the path the same as folder and cannot find a match in the "pathToPartitionInfo" table when doing prefix match.

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